Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad

What grabs me about Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad is the sheer durability of his career in the 3000 metres steeplechase. Three Olympic medals across 2008, 2012 and 2016 is a feat no other man has matched in that event, and stringing together silver, silver and bronze over eight years takes a kind of stubborn consistency I really respect. Add the two World Championship bronzes in 2011 and 2013 and you get a runner who showed up when it counted, again and again. The French steeplechaser of Algerian descent clearly had the fire to stay near the top long after most rivals had faded.

Name (English)

Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad

Name (Japanese)

マイディーヌ・メキシベナバ

Reading

まいでぃーぬ・めきしべなば

Born

March 15, 1985 (age 41)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Ox

Origin

Reims, Marne, France

Height

190 cm

Occupation

middle-distance runner / athletics competitor

Motto

Private

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/mahiedinemekhissi/
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• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%82%A4%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%8C%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A1%E3%82%AD%E3%82%B7%E3%83%99%E3%83%8A%E3%83%90

Tags

• Marne
• middle-distance runner
• athletics competitor

Last updated

2026-06-02

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