Mouhcine Khoua (born 26 July 1998), also spelled Mohcin Lakhoua, is a Moroccan
long jump
The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a takeoff point. Along with the triple jump, the two events that measure jumping for distance as a ...
er. 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
The 2015 African Junior Athletics Championships was the twelfth edition of the biennial, continental athletics tournament for African athletes aged 19 years or younger. It was held at the Addis Ababa Stadium in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from 5–8 Ma ...
, 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 2016 Mediterranean Athletics U23 Championships was an athletics competition which was held in Tunis (Stadium in Radès), Tunisia, from 4 to 5 June 2016. A total of 42 events were contested, of which 21 were contested by male and 21 by femal ...
. 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 that success, placing last among finalists with a 7.22 metre best mark.
Khoua competed in both the 2017 and 2021
Islamic Solidarity Games
The Islamic Solidarity Games ( ar, ألعاب التضامن الإسلامي) is a multinational, multi-sport event. The Games involve the elite athletes of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation who compete in a variety of sports. The Solidari ...
, 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.
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. In 2022, Khoua won his first national title at the
Moroccan Athletics Championships, after failed attempts in 2015 and 2021.
Statistics
Personal bests
References
External links
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Living people
1998 births
Moroccan male long jumpers
African Youth Games athletes (track and field)
Islamic Solidarity Games medalists in athletics
Islamic Solidarity Games bronze medalists for Morocco