Habiba Ghribi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Tunisian middle- and long-distance runner
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Place of Birth: Kairouan, Kairouan Governorate, Tunisia
About Habiba Ghribi
- Habiba Ghribi (born 9 April 1984) is a Tunisian middle- and long-distance runner who specialises in the 3000 metres steeplechase.
- She won the gold medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics, giving her country its first Olympic medal by a woman.
- She is also the Tunisian record holder in the event, having run 9:05.36 at the Memorial van Damme in Brussels in September 2015. Ghribi competed at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships a number of times but found greater success on the track, winning a steeplechase silver at the 2006 African Championships in Athletics and a bronze in the 1500 metres at the 2009 Mediterranean Games.
- She represented Tunisia at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, finishing thirteenth in the first ever women's Olympic steeplechase race.
- In the 2016 Müller Anniversary Games, she won the women's 3000m steeplechase.
- She was voted the Best Sportswoman of 2009 by the Arabic daily newspaper Assahafa.
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