Habiba Ghribi

Habiba Ghribi is a Tunisian middle- and long-distance runner specialising in the 3000 metres steeplechase, born in Kairouan on 9 April 1984. ^{1 2} She is the Olympic champion of London 2012 and the world champion of Daegu 2011 in the steeplechase, and the first Tunisian woman to win an Olympic medal. ¹

Ghribi spent her early childhood in a village near Kairouan before her family moved to Sfax so the children could be schooled; she was noticed in school competitions and later trained with the club at Radès. ³ She began as a cross-country runner, racing the junior event at the 2000 World Cross Country Championships at fifteen and winning the junior race at the 2002 Pan Arab Cross Country Championships, before switching to the steeplechase when it became a championship event. ¹ She took silver at the 2006 African Championships, finished thirteenth in the first women's Olympic steeplechase at Beijing 2008, and placed sixth at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin. ¹ Tunisian newspaper Assahafa voted her the country's best sportswoman of 2009. ¹

At the 2011 World Championships in Daegu and the 2012 London Olympics, Ghribi finished second in the steeplechase behind Russia's Yuliya Zaripova. When Zaripova was disqualified for doping, both titles passed to Ghribi; the Olympic gold was formally awarded in June 2016, making her Tunisia's first female Olympic champion. ^{1 3} She added a world silver medal at Beijing 2015 behind Hyvin Jepkemoi. ³

In September 2015 Ghribi ran 9:05.36 at the Memorial Van Damme in Brussels, a personal best and the Tunisian and African record in the 3000 metres steeplechase. ¹

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