Yasmina Omrani ( ar, ياسمينة عمراني; born 1 January 1988) is a retired

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track and field Track and field is a sport that includes athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name is derived from where the sport takes place, a running track and a grass field for the throwing and some of the jumping events ...

athlete who specialised in the

heptathlon A heptathlon is a track and field combined events contest made up of seven events. The name derives from the Greek επτά (hepta, meaning "seven") and ἄθλος (áthlos, or ἄθλον, áthlon, meaning "competition"). A competitor in a hept ...

. Her personal best for the event is 5979 points (set in 2010) and she also has an

indoor pentathlon The pentathlon or women's pentathlon is a combined track and field event in which each woman competes in five separate events over one day (formerly two days). The distance or time for each event is converted to points via scoring tables, with t ...

best of 4386 points. She began competing for Algeria in 2012 and won the gold medal in the heptathlon at the

2012 African Championships in Athletics The 2012 African Championships in Athletics was held at the Stade Charles de Gaulle in Porto Novo, Benin from 27 June to 1 July 2012. It was the first time that Benin had hosted the event. Medal summary Men Women Medal table Participatin ...

. In her second year of competition she won gold medals at the

Arab Athletics Championships The Arab Athletics Championships is an event organized by the Arab Athletic Association. It traditionally occurred every two years. It was not held in 1985 due to the schedule clash with the Pan Arab Games. However, due to the erratic scheduling ...

and the

Mediterranean Games The Mediterranean Games is a multi-sport event organised by the International Committee of Mediterranean Games (CIJM). It is held every four years among athletes from countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea in Africa, Asia and Europe. The fir ...

Career

Born in

Forbach Forbach ( , , ; gsw, Fuerboch) is a commune in the French department of Moselle, northeastern French region of Grand Est. It is located on the German border approximately 15 minutes from the center of Saarbrücken, Germany, with which it const ...

, France into a sporting family of Algerian descent, her younger brothers Abdelhakim and Billel are professional

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. At the beginning of her

athletics Athletics may refer to: Sports * Sport of athletics, a collection of sporting events that involve competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking ** Track and field, a sub-category of the above sport * Athletics (physical culture), competiti ...

career she competed for her native France. Omrani competed in

combined track and field events Combined track and field events are competitions in which athletes participate in a number of track and field events, earning points for their performance in each event, which adds to a total points score. Outdoors, the most common combined events ...

from a young age and placed 14th at the

2005 World Youth Championships in Athletics The 2005 World Youth Championships in Athletics were held in Marrakesh, Morocco on July 13–July 17. The host stadium was Stade Sidi Youssef Ben Ali. The boy's 400 metres hurdles event was initially won by Sudan's Abdulagadir Idriss in a time ...

(her first major competition). She competed in her first major meetings in 2006 (

Meeting International d'Arles The Meeting International in Arles, France was an annual athletics meet in which international athletes competed in the Decathlon and Heptathlon. The meeting took place in Stade Fernand Fournier in early June. It was a part of the IAAF World Com ...

and Multistars) and won the French junior title with a best of 5333 points. She bettered this by 43 points to place eleventh at the

2006 World Junior Championships in Athletics The 2006 World Junior Championships in Athletics is the 2006 version of the World Junior Championships in Athletics. It was held from 15 August to 20 August at the Chaoyang Sports Centre in Beijing, the capital of the People's Republic of China. ...

.Yasmina Omrani
IAAF. Retrieved on 2013-07-02.Yasmina Omrani
Tilastopaja. Retrieved on 2013-07-02. At the

2007 European Athletics Junior Championships The 19th European Athletics Junior Championships were held between 19 and 22 July 2007 at the FBK-Stadium in Hengelo, in the eastern Netherlands. Medal summary Men Women Medal table See also *2007 in athletics (track and field) ...

she managed only 17th place. In 2008 she improved to 5620 points to take seventh in Arles, came 17th at the European Cup Combined Events meet, and set a personal best of 5669 points to win the French under-23 title. Her 2009 followed a similar pattern with a best of 5772 points in Arles, eleventh at the European Cup, then a best of 5866 points for eighth at the

2009 European Athletics U23 Championships The 7th European Athletics U23 Championships were held between 16 and 19 July 2009 in the S. Darius and S. Girėnas Stadium in Kaunas, Lithuania. Complete results and medal winners were published. Men's results Women's results Medal tabl ...

. Omrani improved to 5979 points at the 2010 European Cup, taking fourth overall, and came second at the

French Athletics Championships The French Athletics Championships (french: Championnats de France d'athlétisme) is an annual outdoor track and field competition organised by the Fédération française d'athlétisme (FFA; French Athletics Federation), which serves as the Frenc ...

that year. She failed to finish the heptathlon at either of those competitions the following year. In her final outing as a French athlete in May 2012 she recorded 5875 points for fourth at the Multistars meet. From 22 May 2012 Omrani transferred her eligibility to Algeria, the birthplace of her parents. She competed as a guest at the French Championships and won the national title in a season's best of 5935 points. On her debut for Algeria she won the

gold medal A gold medal is a medal awarded for highest achievement in a non-military field. Its name derives from the use of at least a fraction of gold in form of plating or alloying in its manufacture. Since the eighteenth century, gold medals have bee ...

at the

– the defending champion Margaret Simpson failed to finish and Omrani's score of 5924 won by a margin of over 400 points.2012 African Championships in Athletics
Confederation of African Athletics. Retrieved on 2013-07-02. Her gold medal streak continued with wins at the 2013

and the

. She finished 19th at the 2013 World Championships and at the 2014 African Championships she dropped out after four events.

References

External links

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Athlete profile at FFA
{{DEFAULTSORT:Omrani, Yasmina Living people 1988 births Algerian heptathletes French heptathletes People from Forbach French sportspeople of Algerian descent Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Algeria Athletes (track and field) at the 2013 Mediterranean Games World Athletics Championships athletes for Algeria Sportspeople from Moselle (department) Mediterranean Games medalists in athletics