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Mouhcine Khoua
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. Biography 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. The following year, he won his first international gold medal at the 2015 African Junior Athletics Championships, defeating Triki in the process. 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. 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 th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athletics (sport)
Athletics is a group of sporting events that involves competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking. The most common types of athletics competitions are track and field, road running, cross country running, and racewalking. The results of racing events are decided by finishing position (or time, where measured), while the jumps and throws are won by the athlete that achieves the highest or furthest measurement from a series of attempts. The simplicity of the competitions, and the lack of a need for expensive equipment, makes athletics one of the most common types of sports in the world. Athletics is mostly an individual sport, with the exception of relay races and competitions which combine athletes' performances for a team score, such as cross country. Organized athletics are traced back to the Ancient Olympic Games from 776 BC. The rules and format of the modern events in athletics were defined in Western Europe and North America in the 19th and early 20th century, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
