1971 Maghreb Athletics Championships

The 1971 Maghreb Athletics Championships was the fifth edition of the international athletics competition between the countries of the Maghreb. Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco were the competing nations. Organised by the Union des Fédérations d'Athlétisme du Maghreb Uni (Union of Athletics Federations of the United Maghreb), it took place on 27 February in Casablanca, Morocco.^[1] It was the second Moroccan city to host the event, after the capital Rabat in 1967. A total of 36 athletics events were contested, 22 for men and 14 for women.^[2]

It was the last time that the competition was held on a yearly schedule, with the event becoming a biennial one instead. Morocco topped the medal table courtesy of its complete sweep of the women's titles. Tunisia took second with twelve golds in the men's section, followed by Algeria with five men's golds. Tunisia's performance was led by Mansour Guettaya and Mohamed Gammoudi, who won a middle-distance running and long-distance running double, respectively. In the women's events, Chérifa Meskaoui was the most successful with four individual gold medals, in hurdles, shot put, discus throw, and pentathlon.

Medal summary[]

Men[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: 2.5 m/s)	(TUN)	10.5w	(MAR)	10.5w	(MAR)	10.7w
200 metres	(MAR)	21.2	Omar Ghizlat (MAR)	21.7	(TUN)	21.9
400 metres	(MAR)	47.5	(TUN)	48.3	Omar Ghizlat (MAR)	48.8
800 metres	Mansour Guettaya (TUN)	1:49.2	(MAR)	1:49.8	Azzedine Azzouzi (ALG)	1:50.1
1500 metres	Mansour Guettaya (TUN)	3:45.4	(MAR)	3:45.8	Mohamed Kacemi (ALG)	3:47.9
5000 metres	Mohammed Gammoudi (TUN)	14:20.2	(ALG)	14:22.6	Jadour Haddou (MAR)	14:27.6
10,000 metres	Mohammed Gammoudi (TUN)	30:16.8	(MAR)	30:25.4	(TUN)	30:48.2
110 m hurdles	(ALG)	14.4	(MAR)	14.8	(MAR)	15.0
400 m hurdles	(TUN)	52.5	(MAR)	53.4	(ALG)	53.6
3000 metres steeplechase	(MAR)	8:56.0	Benassou El Ghazi (MAR)	8:56.8	Boualem Rahoui (ALG)	8:59.0
4×100 m relay	Tunisia (TUN)	42.1	Algeria (ALG)	42.8	Unknown	???
4×400 m relay	Morocco (MAR)	3:15.2	Tunisia (TUN)	3:16.0	Algeria (ALG)	3:20.8
20 km walk	(TUN)	1:35:17	Jouini (TUN)	1:38:24	Kikou (MAR)	1:41:33
High jump	(TUN)	1.95 m	(MAR)	1.90 m	Douiri (MAR)	1.90 m
Pole vault	(ALG)	3.61 m	Jaidane (MAR)	3.61 m	Not awarded
Long jump	(ALG)	7.30w m	(TUN)	7.26w m	(TUN)	7.25w m
Triple jump	(TUN)	14.34 m	(ALG)	14.32 m	Daouda (MAR)	13.95 m
Shot put	(ALG)	16.84 m	(ALG)	16.02 m	(TUN)	13.30 m
Discus throw	(ALG)	48.44 m	(ALG)	45.23 m	(MAR)	40.60 m
Hammer throw	(MAR)	43.30 m	(TUN)	42.50 m	Not awarded
Javelin throw	(TUN)	63.74 m	Hanifer (TUN)	57.95 m	(TUN)	57.20 m
Decathlon	(TUN)	6215 pts	(TUN)	5772 pts	(ALG)	5655 pts

Women[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Malika Hadky (MAR)	12.3	(TUN)	12.6	Fatima El Faquir (MAR)	12.7
200 metres	Fatima El Faquir (MAR)	25.6	Malika Hadky (MAR)	25.8	(TUN)	26.7
400 metres	Malika Hadky (MAR)	58.0	Fatima El Faquir (MAR)	59.1	Lamdjadani (ALG)	60.7
800 metres	(MAR)	2:15.4	(MAR)	2:16.7	(TUN)	2:19.2
1500 metres	(MAR)	4:48.6	(MAR)	4:50.8	(TUN)	4:52.1
100 m hurdles (wind: 3.0 m/s)	(MAR)	14.9w	Fatima El Faquir (MAR)	15.2w	(TUN)	16.1w
4×100 m relay	Morocco (MAR)	50.3	Tunisia (TUN)	50.7	Algeria (ALG)	51.5
4×400 m relay	Morocco (MAR)	4:00.5	Tunisia (TUN)	4:06.5	Algeria (ALG)	4:08.3
High jump	(MAR)	1.48 m	(MAR)	1.48 m	(ALG)	1.45 m
Long jump	(MAR)	5.56 m	Istitene (ALG)	5.46 m	(MAR)	5.39 m
Shot put	(MAR)	11.76 m	Beya Bouabdallah (TUN)	11.04 m	(TUN)	10.46 m
Discus throw	(MAR)	38.98 m	Beya Bouabdallah (TUN)	31.90 m	Unknown	??? m
Javelin throw	(MAR)	35.16 m	(TUN)	34.26 m	Zaidane (MAR)	32.20 m
Pentathlon	(MAR)	4007 pts	(MAR)	3485 pts	Beya Bouabdallah (TUN)	3296 pts

References[]

Champions

• Les championnats maghrebins d athletisme. Union Sportive Oudja. Retrieved on 2015-02-20.