Khalid Skah

Khalid Skah
Information
Discipline (s)	Half Marathon Track (Cross Country)
Activity Period	The 1990
Nationality	Moroccan
Birth	29 January 1967 to Midelt
Location	Midelt
Club (s)	USF = BUL
Records
World record 2 mile
Past results
Olympics		1	0	0
World Championships		4	1	2
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Khalid Skah, born 29 January 1967 at Midelt , is a former athlete Moroccan expert on distance running.

Sports career

He began his career with the cross-country , which he is world champion in 1990 and 1991.

He transferred to the track where he won a bronze medal at the world athletics championships in 1991 , but he is best known for his Olympic title at the Summer Olympics of 1992 in Barcelona. Indeed, during the 10 000m race, while he is fighting with Kenyan Richard Chelimo to the gold medal, another Moroccan athlete who had just been taking a turn disrupts the race and wasting Chelimo time. After surgery, he finally let them fight among themselves.
Skah is initially disqualified finally is milled and made him his medal. However, during the medals ceremony, was booed while Skah is Chelimo ovation.

In 1993 , although it does not end with the fifth world championships , he won the prestigious meeting in Zurich , also on 5000 m .

He subsequently obtained a silver medal at the World Athletics Championships 1995 on 10 000 m.

It also participates in road races and won a title of world champion Half Marathon in Oslo in 1994. He won also the bronze medal at the World Championships Half Marathon 1998 , in Zurich in Switzerland.

Awards

Summer Olympics

• Summer Olympics of 1992 in Barcelona :
  • Champion Olympic 10,000 m

World Championships

• World Athletics Championships 1991 in Tokyo :
  • Silver Medal of 10 000 m
• World Athletics Championships 1995 in Gothenburg :
  • Silver Medal of 10 000 m

Other titles

• World champion cross country in 1990 and 1991
• Champion World Half-Marathon in 1994

Records

• World record of 2 miles in 1993

Privacy

He married after his victory in Barcelona an interior decorator Norwegian , Anne Cecile Hopstock. Two children, Tarik and Selma, are born of this union, respectively in 1993 and 1996 .

After the divorce of their parents in 2006 , the two children lived in Rabat with their father while their mother went back to Norway in 2007 . In July 2009, two Norwegian soldiers are helping the children to leave the Norwegian Embassy, where they fled and where they then join that country .
Khalid Skah Norway plans to summon to court, a country it accuses of illegally removing her children . Moreover, children deny having been abducted and were reported to have left voluntarily Morocco . For its part, the Norwegian Embassy in Morocco recognizes hosting the children because she felt that their safety was threatened, but denies any links with their extradition .

The children have dual nationality and each parent has custody in their respective countries .

External Links

• (In) Profile of Khalid Skah on the website of the IAAF

References

• Athletics portal
• Morocco Portal

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