Habiba Ghribi

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Habiba Ghribi

Ghribi at the 2012 Olympics
Personal information
Nickname	Bibi
Nationality	Tunisian
Born	(1984-04-09) 9 April 1984 (age 40) Kairouan, Tunisia
Height	1.74 m (5 ft 8+1⁄2 in)
Weight	56 kg (123 lb; 8.8 st)
Website	habibaghribi.com
Sport
Country	Tunisia
Sport	Athletics
Event	3000 metres steeplechase
Coached by	Constantin Nourescu (ROU)[1]
Medal record Women's athletics Representing  Tunisia Olympic Games 2012 London 3000 m st. World Championships 2011 Daegu 3000 m st. 2015 Beijing 3000 m st. Mediterranean Games 2009 Pescara 1500 m African Championships 2006 Bambous 3000 m st.

Habiba Ghribi (Arabic: حبيبة الغريبي, born 9 April 1984)^[1] is a Tunisian middle- and long-distance runner who specialises in the 3000 metres steeplechase. She won the gold medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics, giving her country its first Olympic medal by a woman. She is also the Tunisian record holder in the event, having run 9:05.36 at the Memorial van Damme in Brussels in September 2015.

Ghribi competed at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships a number of times but found greater success on the track, winning a steeplechase silver at the 2006 African Championships in Athletics and a bronze in the 1500 metres at the 2009 Mediterranean Games. She represented Tunisia at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, finishing thirteenth in the first ever women's Olympic steeplechase race. In the 2016 Müller Anniversary Games, she won the women's 3000m steeplechase. She was voted the Best Sportswoman of 2009 by the Arabic daily newspaper Assahafa.