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Morocco at the 2008 Summer Olympics

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IOC code	MAR
NOC	Comité Olympique Marocain

At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing

Competitors

Flag bearer

Abdelkader Kada

Medals
Rank: 64

Gold
0

Silver
1

Bronze
1

Total
2

Olympic history (summary)

Summer Games

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Winter Games

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Morocco competed in the 2008 Summer Olympics held in Beijing, People's Republic of China from August 8 to August 24, 2008.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Silver	Jaouad Gharib	Athletics	Men's Marathon
Bronze	Hasna Benhassi	Athletics	Women's 800m

Archery

Main articles: Archery at the 2008 Summer Olympics and Archery at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Qualification

Morocco will send an archer to the Olympics for the first time. Fatine Ouadoudi took the top spot at the 2008 African qualifying tournament, earning the nation its first Olympic archery spot.^[1]

Athlete	Event	Ranking Round	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
Score	Seed	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Khadija Abbouda	Individual	539	64	Park (KOR) L 80-112	Did not advance

Athletics

Main article: Athletics at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Men

Track and road events

Events	Athletes	Heat Round 1	Heat Round 2	Semifinal	Final
Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
800 m	Yassine Bensghir
Mouhssin Chehibi
Amine Laalou	1:47.86	Q		1:46.74	16	Did not advance
1500 m	Youssef Baba	3:42.13	33		Did not advance
Abdalaati Iguider	3:36.48	15 Q		3:37.21	3 Q
Mohamed Moustaoui	3:34.80	2 Q		3:40.90	21	Did not advance
5000 m	Ahmed Baday
Anis Selmouni	13:43.70	12		Did not advance
Mourad Marofit	14:00.76	30		Did not advance
Abdelaziz Ennaji El Idrissi	14:05.30	31		Did not advance
10000 m	Mohamed El Hachimi		Did not finish
Abdellah Falil		27:53.14	16
3000 m steeplechase	Hamid Ezzine	8:27.45	21		Did not advance
Abdelkader Hachlaf	8:23.62	17 Q		9:02.06	15
Brahim Taleb	8:23.09	13		Did not advance
Marathon	Abderrahime Bouramdane		2:17:42	26
Jaouad Gharib		2:07:16
Abderrahim Goumri		2:15:00	20

Field events

Athlete	Events	Qualification	Final
Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Yahya Berrabah	Long jump	7.88	17	Did not advance
Tarik Bouguetaib	Long jump	7.69	29	Did not advance
Triple jump	No mark	Did not advance

Women

Track and road events

Athletes	Events	Heat Round 1	Heat Round 2	Semifinal	Final
Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Mariem Alaoui Selsouli	5000 m	15:21.47	19		Did not advance
Hasna Benhassi	800 m	2:00.51	16 Q		1:58.03	4 Q	1:56.73
Bouchra Chaâbi	1500 m	4:19.89	32		Did not advance
Siham Hilali	1500 m	4:05.36	8 Q		4:05.57	10
Btissam Lakhouad	1500 m	4:14.34	22 Q		4:07.25	12
Asmae Leghzaoui	10000 m		Did not finish
Hanane Ouhaddou	3000 m steeplechase	9:56.41	40		Did not advance

Boxing

Main articles: Boxing at the 2008 Summer Olympics and Boxing at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Qualification

Morocco qualified ten boxers for the Olympic boxing tournament, missing only the light heavyweight class. Rachidi was the only to qualify at the World Championships.^[2] Seven more qualified at the first African qualifying tournament.^[3] Bouchtouk and Amanissi qualified at the second continental event.^[4]

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals
Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Redouane Bouchtouk	Light flyweight (-48 kg)	Carvalho L 7 - 13	Did not advance
Abdelillah Nhaila	Flyweight (48-51 kg)	Mammadov L 19 - 4	Did not advance
Hicham Mesbahi	Bantamweight (51-54 kg)	Romero W 11 - 3	Khumiso L 3 - 8 (RSC)	Did not advance
Mahdi Ouatine	Featherweight (54-57 kg)	Enkhzorig L 10 - 1	Did not advance
Tahar Tamsamani	Lightweight (57-60 kg)	Valentino L 15 - 4	Did not advance
Driss Moussaid	Light welterweight(60-64 kg)	Kidd W 23 - 2	Roniel L 4 - 15	Did not advance
Mehdi Khalsi	Welterweight(64-69 kg)	Mahmudov L 3 - 11	Did not advance
Said Rachidi	Middleweight(69-75 kg)	Artayev L 8 - 2	Did not advance
Mohamed Arjaoui	Heavyweight(81-91 kg)		Pitt L 6 - 11	D Wilder L +10 - 10	Did not advance
Mohamed Amanissi	Super heavyweight (+91 kg)		Zhang L 0 - 15	Did not advance

Fencing

Main articles: Fencing at the 2008 Summer Olympics and Fencing at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Qualification

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals
Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score
Aissam Rami	Individual épée	Motyka L 11 - 15	Did not advance
Ali Xavier Lahoussine	Individual foil	Guyart L 15 - 3	Did not advance

Judo

Main articles: Judo at the 2008 Summer Olympics and Judo at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Qualification

Men

Athlete	Event	Preliminary	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	First Repechage Round	Repechage Quarterfinals
Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Youness Ahamdi	−60 kg	P Ludwig L 1010-0000	Did not advance
Rachid Rguig	−66 kg	D Darbelet L 1002-0000	Did not advance
Safouane Attaf	−81 kg	B Alibek W 1000-0001	B Euan L 0001-0010	Did not advance
Mohammad El Assri	−90 kg	B Amar L 0011-0001	Did not advance

Swimming

Main article: Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Women

Athlete	Events	Heat	Semifinal	Final
Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Sara El Bekri	100 m breaststroke	1:08.66	19	Did not advance
200 m breaststroke	2:30.09	28	Did not advance

Taekwondo

Main articles: Taekwondo at the 2008 Summer Olympics and Taekwondo at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Qualification

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage Quarterfinals	Repechage Semifinals	Final
Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Abdelkader Zrouri	+80 kg	Díaz (VEN) 'W'KO	Nikolaidis (GRE) L 4-5	Did not advance	Chilmanov (KAZ) L WDR	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage Quarterfinals
Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Ghizlane Toudali	−49 kg
Mouna Benabderrassoul	-67 kg

References

v · d · eNations at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China

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Morocco at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Contents

Medalists

Archery

Athletics

Men

Women

Boxing

Fencing

Judo

Swimming

Taekwondo

See also

References