Abdelhadi Habassa (born 13 January 1976) is a Moroccan long-distance runner. He finished eighteenth at the 2001 World Half Marathon Championships. His personal best time in the

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was 28:16.28 minutes, achieved in July 2001 in

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. His personal best time in the

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was 1:01:21 hours, achieved in April 2003 in Safi. In 2008 Habassa was found guilty of norandrosterone doping. The sample was delivered on 3 February 2008 in an in-competition test in

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, Spain. He received an IAAF suspension from May 2008 to May 2010.

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