Personal information | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nationality | Morocco | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | 15 March 1994 (30 years, 235 days old) [1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | 110 metres hurdles 60 metres hurdles | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | French: Entente Franconville CésameVO [2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Achievements and titles | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
National finals |
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Personal bests | 110mH : 13.57 (+1.5) NR (2021) 60mH : 7.69 NR (2018) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Updated on 15 January 2024 |
Mohamed Koussi (born 15 March 1994), also known as Koussi Mohamed, is a Moroccan hurdler specializing in the 110 metres hurdles. He was the bronze medalist at the 2016 African Championships in Athletics in the short hurdles, and he has won a bronze and silver medal at the Arab Athletics Championships. He is also a multiple-time Moroccan Athletics Championships winner and the Moroccan record holder in both the 60 m hurdles and 110 m hurdles. [3]
Koussi represents Morocco internationally, but he has variously competed at the Moroccan Athletics Championships and French Athletics Championships since 2013, though he has only competed at the Moroccan championships since 2018. [1] He trains with the Entente Franconville CésameVO French athletics club. [2]
He achieved his first international championship experience at the 2013 African Junior Athletics Championships, winning the 110 m hurdles gold medal into a significant -3.6 m/s headwind. [4]
The following year, Koussi broke the Moroccan national record in the 60 metres hurdles indoors, with a 7.99 clocking in the heats of the Eaubonne, France regional U23 championships. [1] Outdoors, he represented France at the 2014 European Champion Clubs Cup, placing 5th in the 110 m hurdles and 7th in the 4 × 100 m relay. [1] At the African Championships, Koussi finished 5th in his semi-final and was the fastest non-qualifier for the finals. [5]
Koussi improved his Moroccan record in the 60 m hurdles a further six times in 2016, the first four times bringing it down to 7.91 in Eaubonne through 13 February. The final two improvements came in Reims, France at the Meeting National En Salle De Reims, to 7.85 and then 7.82 in the finals for 4th place. [1] He set his first outdoor record in the heats at the Meeting Elite de Montgeron-Essonne in Montgeron, with a 13.74 clocking, followed by winning the French Athletics Club Championships in 13.69 seconds. [1] After finishing 4th at the 2016 Mediterranean Athletics U23 Championships and just missing out on a medal, Koussi sought redemption at the 2016 African Championships in Athletics. In the 110 m hurdles, he advanced to the finals and finished 3rd for his first senior international medal. [6] [7]
In 2018 at the Meeting National en Salle des Sacres, Koussi made his final improvement of the Moroccan 60 m hurdles record, with a 7.69 personal best in the heats. [8] Outdoors, Koussi qualified for the finals and finished 7th at the Mediterranean Games. [1] At the following 2018 African Championships in Athletics, Koussi finished 5th in his heat and did not qualify for the finals. [1]
Koussi's next personal best and national record came in 2021, with a 13.57-second 110 m hurdles performance to win the 10th Meeting Fédéral in Rabat followed by a bronze medal at the 2021 Arab Athletics Championships. After not recording any performances in 2022, he would further improve this to 13.49 at the 2023 Meeting National à Thème Bonneuil-sur-Marne. However due to a phototimer malfunction, the result was not validated as a Moroccan record, leaving the 13.57 performance to stand. [1] He finished his 2023 season with a silver medal at the 2023 Arab Athletics Championships, improving upon his bronze from two years ago. [1]
Event | Mark | Place | Competition | Venue | Date | Ref |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
110 metres hurdles | 13.57 (+1.5 m/s) NR | 1st | Meeting Fédéral | Rabat, Morocco | 11 April 2021 | [1] |
60 metres hurdles | 7.69 NR | (Round 2) | Meeting National en Salle des Sacres | Reims, France | 31 January 2018 | [1] |
Ladji Doucouré is a French track and field athlete.
Dwight Thomas O.D is a Jamaican sprinter, mainly competing in the 100 metres event and more recently the 110 m hurdles.
Dayron Robles is a Cuban track and field athlete who specialises in the 110 metre hurdles.
Periklís Iakovákis is a retired Greek athlete mainly competing in 400 metres hurdles. He is the Greek record holder with a time of 47.82 seconds and fifteen times national champion in the event.
David Oliver, is the Director of Track & Field at Howard University and a retired American hurdling athlete. As a professional athlete, he competed in the 110 meter hurdles event outdoor and the 60 meter hurdles event indoors. He is the former 110 meter hurdles champion winning the gold medal at the World Championships in Moscow in 2013 with a time of 13 seconds. He won the bronze medal in the 2008 Olympic Games and won another bronze at the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships.
Amine Laâlou is a Moroccan track and field athlete, who specializes in middle-distance running. He has represented his country at the Summer Olympics on two occasions; in 2004 and 2008. He began his career as an 800 metres specialist and made his global debut at the 2003 World Championships in Athletics. He won medals at smaller international competitions, including the 2004 Pan Arab Games and 2005 Mediterranean Games. He reached his first global final at the 2007 World Championships, taking sixth, and was a semi-finalist at the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Andrew Steven Turner is an English bodybuilder and retired track and field athlete who specialised in the 110 metres hurdles and occasionally competed in the 100 and 200 metres sprints as well as long jump. At the 110 m hurdles, he is the 2011 World Championship bronze medallist, the 2010 European Champion and the 2010 Commonwealth Champion. Also in 2010, he broke the automatically timed world record in the 200 metres hurdles. He was coached by Lloyd Cowan.
Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad is a retired French professional middle-distance runner of Algerian descent who mainly competed in the 3000 metres steeplechase. He is the only man to win three Olympic steeplechase medals, claiming silver in 2008 and 2012 and bronze in 2016. He also won two bronze medals at the IAAF World Championships in Athletics in 2011 and 2013. Mekhissi-Benabbad earned titles at five consecutive editions of the European Athletics Championships between 2010 and 2018.
Shamar Sands is a Bahamian track and field athlete who specialises in the 110 metres hurdles. He is the Bahamian national record holder in the event with 13.40 seconds. Sands is the cousin of triple jumper Leevan Sands and also has a degree in accounting.
Sir Charles Lawrence Somerset Clarke, 7th Baronet, OLY is a former professional 110 m hurdler who finished fourth in the London Olympic Games 110 m hurdles final. He is the son of Sir Toby Clarke, 6th Baronet and succeeded to the baronetcy on his father's death in 2019. He served as Captain of the Great Britain Athletics Team at the 2015 European Athletics Indoor Championships and was coached in Bath by Malcolm Arnold. He was coached in Paris by Giscard Samba Koundys for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. He currently works for Citigroup in London. He is also a member of the American Roosevelt family.
Orlando Ortega Alejo is a Cuban-born Spanish track and field athlete who competes in the 110 metres hurdles. His personal best for the event is 12.94 seconds and he was the silver medallist at the 2016 Olympics.
Sergey Vladimirovich Shubenkov is a Russian athlete who competes in the 110 metres hurdles. He is the 2015 World Champion, two-time European Champion and 2013 World bronze medalist in men's 110 m hurdles.
Warren Weir is a retired Jamaican sprinter, who specialized in the 200 metres. He was the bronze medallist in the event at the 2012 London Olympics, helping Jamaica sweep the medals. In 2013 at the Moscow World Championships, Warren Weir won the silver medal equalling his personal best. He finished behind Usain Bolt who set a World Leading time. His personal best is 19.79 seconds set at the National Stadium in his home country Kingston, Jamaica. He has since equalled his personal best in Moscow, in the World Championship final. He trained with the Glen Mills-coached Racers Track Club, alongside Usain Bolt and Yohan Blake.
The 2000 Arab Junior Athletics Championships was the ninth edition of the international athletics competition for under-20 athletes from Arab countries. It took place in Damascus, Syria – the second consecutive time the city hosted the tournament, and a sixth hosting for Syria. A total of 42 athletics events were contested, 22 for men and 20 for women. Neither Morocco, Algeria nor Qatar—all regional powers in the sport—sent a team to the meeting, which impacted the overall quality of performances.
Nadine Visser is a Dutch track and field athlete who competed in the combined events until 2017 and specialises in short hurdling since 2018.
Ronald Levy is a Jamaican male track and field athlete who competes in the 110 metres hurdles. He holds a personal best of 13.05 seconds for that event, set in 2017, as well as a 100 metres sprint best of 10.17 seconds. He was the gold medallist at the 2018 Commonwealth Games and represented his country at the World Championships in Athletics in 2017.
Sasha Zhoya is an Australian-born French athlete who represents France in international track and field competition, specialized in hurdling events. Born in Australia, and of French and Zimbabwean descent, he represents France internationally.
Trevor Bassitt is an American track and field athlete.
Mehdi Takordmioui is a Moroccan sprinter. He is a two-time national champion, and he won the gold medal in the 200 m at the 2019 Arab Athletics Championships.
Saad Hinti is a Moroccan hurdler specialising in the 400 metres hurdles. He is the Moroccan Athletics Championships record-holder in the 400 m hurdles, and he won the gold medal in that event at the 2023 Francophone Games and the 2023 Arab U23 Championships.