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| Nationality |  Morocco | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 26 July 1998 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | Long jump [1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | L'athlé 66 (Union Perpignan section) [1] [2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Mouhcine Khoua (born 26 July 1998), also spelled Mohcin Lakhoua, is a Moroccan long jumper. He was the 2015 African U20 champion in the long jump, as well as the 2022 Moroccan Athletics Championships winner.
Khoua made his international debut at the 2014 African Youth Games, where he won a bronze medal in the long jump with a mark of 7.23 metres, losing to Yasser Triki. [3] The following year, he won his first international gold medal at the 2015 African Junior Athletics Championships, defeating Triki in the process. [4]
In 2016, Khoua achieved his farthest wind-legal jump with a 7.85 metre leap at the 2016 Mediterranean Athletics U23 Championships. The mark earned him a silver medal behind Lamont Marcel Jacobs, the eventual Olympic 100 metres champion. [5]
Khoua competed in his first global championship at the 2016 World U20 Championships in the long jump. With a 7.52 m first round jump, he was the last athlete to qualify for the finals. In the finals he could not repeat that success, placing last among finalists with a 7.22 metre best mark. [1]
Khoua competed in both the 2017 and 2021 Islamic Solidarity Games, with a best finish of third to win the bronze medal in 2017. That would be one of three international medals Khoua would win that year, also placing third at the African U20 Championships and second at the Jeux de la Francophonie. [1]
At the 2021 Arab Athletics Championships, Khoua returned to medal-winning form with a 7.60 m jump for silver, losing only to Triki again. [6] In 2022, Khoua won his first national title at the Moroccan Athletics Championships, after failed attempts in 2015 and 2021. [7]
| Event | Mark | Place | Competition | Venue | Date |
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| Long jump | 8.09 m NWI |  | Compétition à Benguerir | Ben Guerir, Morocco | 29 April 2018 |
| 7.86 m (+0.3 m/s) | | Mediterranean U23 Athletics Championships | Radès, Tunisia | 4 June 2016 |
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