Sanaa Benhama
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| Nationality | Moroccan |
| Born |
9 June 1982 Al Khmissat, Morocco |
| Height | 161 cm (63 in) |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Athletics |
| Disability | visual impairment |
| Disability class | T13 |
| Event(s) | sprint, long jump |
| Club | Association Handisport Ennasser |
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Sanaa Benhama (born 9 June 1982) is a Paralympic athlete from Morocco competing mainly in category T13 sprint events. She has competed at two Summer Paralympics, most notably at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, China where she won three gold medals dominating the sprint field in her class.
Benhama was born in Al Khmissat, Morocco in 1982.
Benhama, who trains out of Association Handisport Ennasser in Salé, made her senior debut as a T13 classification athlete at a meet in Rabat in 2008. Later that year she made her full international debut when she was selected as part of the Morocco team to compete at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing. She competed in four events, the three sprints and the long jump. In the long jump she made the last eight allowing her to compete at three more attempts, but with her best some distance from the leading pack Benhama withdrew with two jumps remaining, finishing in sixth place. It was in the sprint events that Benhama made an impact at the Games. She began with the 400 metre sprint, qualifying in the fastest time and then setting a new Paralympic record of 55.56 seconds in the finals to take her first gold medal of the Games. She followed this two days later with another gold, this time in the 200 metres, in which she beat her nearest rival, France's Nantenin Keïta by over half a second. Her final event of the 2008 Paralympics was the 100 metres (T13), in which she set a Paralympic record in the heats, qualifying with a time of 12.38 seconds. In the final, an event beset with heavy rain, Benhama recorded a time of 12.28 to take her third gold medal and set a new world record.
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