Majida Maayouf

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Majida Maayouf
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Maayouf in 2024
Personal information
Full nameMajida Maayouf Chajra
Born27 April 1989 (1989-04-27) (age 36) [1]
Brarha, Morocco
Height1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Sport
CountryFlag of Morocco.svg  Morocco
Flag of Spain.svg  Spain
Sport Track and field
Event Marathon
Achievements and titles
Olympic finals 2024 Paris
Marathon (17th) [2] [3]
Personal bestMarathon: 2:21:01 (2022)
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing Flag of Spain.svg Spain
European Running Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2025 Leuven Marathon

Majida Maayouf Chajra [4] (born 27 April 1989) [1] [5] [a] is a Moroccan-Spanish marathoner and cross country runner. She is the Spanish national record holder in the marathon. She competed in the women's marathon at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris and at the 2024 World Cross Country Championships in Belgrade. She won the silver medal in the marathon and gold in the team competition at the 2025 European Running Championships in Belgium.

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Career

In 2021, she achieved the minimum standard time in Siena, Italy to compete in the Tokyo Olympic Games, however her naturalisation process to Spanish was incomplete, and she was unable to compete. [6] In 2022, she set a personal best 2:21:01 at the Valencia Marathon. The following year, she gained Spanish citizenship. [7] On 3 December 2023, she ran a Spanish national record for the marathon of 2:21:27 at the Valencia Marathon in Spain. [8]

She competed for Spain at the 2024 World Athletics Cross Country Championships in Belgrade, Serbia on 30 March 2024. [9] She competed in the women's marathon event for Spain at the 2024 Summer Olympics. [2]

In April 2025, she won the silver medal in the marathon at the 2025 European Running Championships in Leuven, Belgium. [10] She finished behind her compatriot Fatima Azzahraa Ouhaddou Nafie in a Spanish one-two, and also won a gold medal in the team championships. [11]

Personal life

Born in Brarha, Morocco, in 1989, Maayouf arrived in Spain in 2011 with a visa to run the Barcelona Marathon. At 22 years-of-age, she settled in the Basque Country, first in Santurtzi, then in Vitoria-Gasteiz, and for the past four years in Agurain. In 2023, Maayouf acquired Spanish nationality. She has a daughter. [6] [7]

Notes

  1. ↑ Maayouf was 34 years old in 2023

References

  1. 1 2 "MAAYOUF Majida". Paris 2024 Olympics . Retrieved 7 September 2024. Date of Birth: 27 Apr 1989
  2. 1 2 "Women's Marathon Results". 2024 Paris Olympics . Retrieved 18 August 2024.
  3. ↑ Barcia, Igor (11 August 2024). ""No he cogido dos avituallamientos y ahí lo he perdido todo", lamenta Majida Maayouf". El Correo (in Spanish). Retrieved 18 August 2024.
  4. ↑ "Majida Maayouf Chajra". AtletismoRFEA.es (in Spanish). RFEA . Retrieved 26 December 2024.
  5. ↑ Pérez, Ismael (13 June 2023). "El Gobierno nacionaliza a Majida Maayouf, maratoniana de 2h21 y ganadora de la Vintage". Runner's World (in Spanish). Retrieved 18 August 2024.
  6. 1 2 Miñón, Iñigo (19 March 2024). "La alavesa Majida Maayouf liderará al equipo de maratón en los Juegos Olímpicos". El Correo (in Spanish). Retrieved 18 August 2024.
  7. 1 2 "Majida Maayouf en los Juegos Olímpicos de París 2024". El Periódico Extremadura (in Spanish). 15 July 2024. Retrieved 18 August 2024.
  8. ↑ "Lemma breaks course record, Degefa dominates in Valencia". World Athletics Championships . 3 December 2023. Retrieved 18 August 2024.
  9. ↑ "Senior Women Race Results". World Athletics. Retrieved 13 April 2025.
  10. ↑ "European Running Championships 2025: All results, times and standings - full list". olympics.com. 13 April 2025. Retrieved 13 April 2025.
  11. ↑ Mills, Steven (13 April 2025). "Ouhaddou Nafie wins dramatic and historic marathon gold for Spain at Brussels-Leuven 2025". European Athletics. Retrieved 13 April 2025.
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