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	Hassiba Boulmerka - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hassiba Boulmerka (born July 10, 1968) is a former Algerian middle distance athlete.
		Boulmerka's next two seasons were not as successful, although she won a bronze medal at the 1993 World Championships in Stuttgart.
		Boulmerka was later elected to the athlete's commission of the International Olympic Committee.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hassiba_Boulmerka (344 words)

	Women Warriors - Athletes - Hassiba Boulmerka (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Thirty-five year-old Boulmerka was born in Constantine, Algeria and from a young age enjoyed running in her homeland's mountainous terrain.
		Boulmerka faced strong competition in the 1500-metre final, but she stayed with the pacesetters the entire way and then sprinted ahead to win the gold medal in 4 min.
		Boulmerka responded to her critics by stating that she was a practicing Muslim, but an athlete as well and the traditional dress would inevitably slow her down.
	www.womenwarriors.ca /en/athletes/profile.asp?id=103 (535 words)

	Hassiba Boulmerka
		Hassiba's best time for the year in the 1500m was 4min 05.87sec which she recorded when finishing 7th at the Nikaia meet in Nice on 10 July.
		In Atlanta, Boulmerka qualified for the semi-finals without any drama on 31 July, but in her semi-final the next day, Boulmerka lost her chance to successfully defend her title when she stumbled just as the field was receiving the bell for the final lap.
		This was effectively the end of Boulmerka's distinguished career, she did not defend her world title at the 1997 Championships in Athens, although she did record noteworthy times that year of 4min 31.12 sec over a mile at Lausanne on 2 July, and 4min 02.62sec over 1500m at Monaco on 16 August.
	www.sporting-heroes.net /athletics-heroes/displayhero.asp?HeroID=123 (287 words)

	Hassiba Boulmerka
		Hassiba Boulmerka was at the forefront of a revolution in the 1990s, which saw the emergence of African women as a competitive force in international distance running.
		In 1989, Boulmerka retained her African Championships titles in both the 800m and 1500m at Lagos in August, and then a month later, although she finished only 7th, she set a new personal best of 2mim02.21sec over 800m at the World Cup in Barcelona.
		Boulmerka stayed with the pacesetters all the way, and then sprinted ahead in the straight to win the gold medal in 4min 02.21sec.
	www.sporting-heroes.net /athletics-heroes/displayhero.asp?HeroID=120 (322 words)

	Athletics
		Hassiba Boulmerka made a great breakthrough in 1991, vastly improving her 1500m time, and winning the world championships at that distance in Tokyo.
		This did not help Boulmerka in her quest to add the Olympic gold medal to her world title, and she had a dismal early season, failing to win a single event, and clocking a best time of only 4min 03.87sec.
		Compared with this success, Boulmerka had an indifferent season in 1993, but as usual she kept her best performance for when it mattered, finishing third in the 1500m at the World Championships in Stuttgart on 22 August in her year's best time of 4min 04.29sec.
	www.sporting-heroes.net /athletics-heroes/printableversion.asp?HeroID=121 (319 words)

	Hassiba Boulmerka (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Hassiba Boulmerka (born July 10, 1968) is a former Algerian middle distance runner.
		Born in Constantine, Boulmerka started running as ayoung girl, specialising in the 800 and 1500 m.
		Her first major international tournament where the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, where she was eliminated in thepreliminary heat of both the 800 and 1500 m.
	www.therfcc.org /hassiba-boulmerka-4001.html (342 words)

	CNNSI.com - SI For Women - 100 Greatest Female Athletes - Monday November 29, 1999 03:39 PM
		As a young athlete, Algerian-born Hassiba Boulmerka relied heavily on her family for daily emotional support in a national climate that at one time debated imposing a ban on women that would keep them from participating in athletics.
		In 1991, when Boulmerka won gold in the 1,500 meters at the Tokyo world track and field championships -- and became the first woman from an Arabic or African nation to win a world track championship -- it was an historic achievement for women in her homeland.
		Boulmerka answered her critics by stating that she was a practicing Muslim but also an athlete, and that the traditional Islamic women's clothing and headscarf would slow her speed.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /siforwomen/top_100/70 (354 words)

	iqexpand.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
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		In 1991, Hassiba Boulmerka of Algeria scored a stunning upset victory in the 1 500m run at the World Athletics Championships.
		Before the 1992 Olympic Games, Algerian runner Hassiba Boulmerka received death threats from countrymen because she exposed her legs by wearing running shorts.
	hassiba_boulmerka.iqexpand.com (380 words)

	Boulmerka, Hassiba - Profiles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Hassiba Boulmerka, the first African woman and Arab competitor to win a World Championship title, was born in Constantine, Algeria, on 10 July 1968.
		Boulmerka emerged at the front of a crowd of African women distance runners that began to make their mark in international competitions in the 1990's.
		Boulmerka's performance at the Tokyo World Championships in August 1991 established her as a runner of international standing when she took the gold medal in the 1500 metre race.
	people.africadatabase.org /en/profile/10860.html (536 words)

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		fundamentalist muslim groups in Algeria who thought she showed too much of her body when racing, and Boulmerka was forced to move to Europe to train.
		Boulmerka's next two seasons were not as successful, although she won a bronze medal at the
		Boulmerka was later elected to the athlete's commission of the
	en-cyclopedia.com /wiki/Hassiba_Boulmerka (237 words)

	Sports Illustrated : A scream and a prayer. (Algerian runners Noureddine Morceli and Hassiba Boulmerka) @ HighBeam ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The eye couldn't help but fasten on Noureddine Morceli and Hassiba Boulmerka as they ran their respective 1,500-meter finals at the world championships in Tokyo last summer.
		Morceli, the indoor-record holder, was the favorite in the men's race, but Boulmerka was virtually unknown in the women's.
		Boulmerka didn't claw out of the pack and into the lead until late in the last turn.
	static.elibrary.com /s/sportsillustrated/august031992/ascreamandaprayeralgerianrunnersnoureddinemorcelia/index.html (228 words)

	Sport \| Tunisia's rising Sfar
		Sfar, 24, whose appearance in Melbourne will mean she has played in each of the Grand Slams, is the most important ambassador Arab women's sports has had since the Algerian Hassiba Boulmerka defied the ayatollahs to win the gold medal in the 1500 metres at the 1992 Olympics.
		As the first daughter of Islam to shine in international sport, Boulmerka was spat upon and had obscene graffiti about her daubed on walls around Algeria at a time when the Islamic Salvation Front was sweeping to power.
		Boulmerka has since been followed by a generation of Moroccan female athletes who have succeeded in events ranging from the 400m hurdles to the marathon.
	sport.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4334286-110460,00.html (693 words)

	Hassiba Boulmerka athlete Atlanta Gothenburg Seoul ankle International Olympic Committee world title Rome July 10 ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Hassiba Boulmerka athlete Atlanta Gothenburg Seoul ankle International Olympic Committee world title Rome July 10 fundamentalist
		informative example of one woman's quest for freedom through sport is that of Hassiba Boulmerka, the extraordinary Algerian middle distance runner who won the gold medal in the women's 1500...
		Tatyana Tomashova repeated the feat of the great Algerian Hassiba Boulmerka from a decade ago by becoming only the second woman to win two 1500m...
	en.powerwissen.com /qjb4O%7C%7CSL%7C%7CINdPaJnFtBFhL8SA%3D%3D_Hassiba_Boulmerka.html (466 words)

	Guardian \| Bare legs and blind faith
		But the Algerian national anthem was still heard thanks to the victory of Hassiba Boulmerka in the women's corresponding event.
		That win was a significant moment in the women's liberation movement because Boulmerka was transformed not only into a national heroine but into a symbol for Arab women who wanted to break away from traditional Islamic restrictions.
		After Barcelona, Boulmerka was denounced in mosques across the country for 'running with naked legs in front of thousands of men' and in some parts of Algeria was stoned.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4070296-102283,00.html (675 words)

	women
		Boulmerka is an Algerian Olympic gold medalist (1500 meter race) who has been spat upon, pelted with rocks, and even threatened with death in her own country for "running with naked legs in front of thousands of men." She is also the first Algerian woman world champion.
		In 1900 she won the Woman's Singles Tennis Tournament for Great Britain; the 1st victory for a woman in the first year of their paricipation in the Olympic Games.
		Three of the women's Olympic team's that brought home gold medals in the last Summer and Winter Olympics were _____________, _____________, and _______________.
	www.cis.vt.edu /ws/wsmodules/Service_Learning/SLProjects/brad/women.html (1103 words)

	Track & Field Overview/Women
		Boulmerka, Mutola and O'Sullivan are some of the unfamiliar names likely to become well-known to U.S. fans before the closing ceremonies.
		Algeria's Hassiba Boulmerka has raced sparingly since her '92 gold medal in the 1,500, but the '95 World Championship was one of her two outdoor appearances last season.
		She is expected to return to Atlanta in much better condition than at the Trials.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/sports/oly/spc/5/track/w-track-view.2-0.html (424 words)

	Writings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		That excellence equals beauty was taken for granted by the Greeks, fathers of the Olympiad, and Hassiba Boulmerka embodies the equation's power.
		Arms splayed, head back, eyes closed, the Algerian woman bursts the tape, reënacting, perhaps, her triumph at Barcelona in 1992, or, more likely, dreaming of the touch of Atlanta's track: she is the world's greatest at fifteen hundred metres, and the presumptive favorite at the next Olympics.
		In Algeria, these are complicated and bloody matters, near the heart of an intricate cultural war that has claimed the lives of tens of thousands, including hundreds of women attacked because of their Western dress.
	journalism.berkeley.edu /faculty/MarkDanner/wnyrunning.htm (179 words)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - ATHLETES
		When she returned to Algiers, she was hailed as a national heroine and as a model for Arab women who wanted to break away from restrictive roles.
		Two hundred metres from the finish, Boulmerka drove past Rogacheva and cruised to victory.
		Later, Boulmerka was one of the first people to be directly elected to the Athletes' Commission of the International Olympic Committee.
	www.olympic.org /uk/athletes/heroes/bio_uk.asp?PAR_I_ID=35990 (136 words)

	Track Roundup (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Hassiba Boulmerka of Algeria, the 1992 gold medalist and defending world champion in the women's 1,500 meters, was literally knocked out of the semifinals.
		Running in the middle of the pack, Boulmerka got her feet tangled with those of Gabriela Szabo of Romania.
		Boulmerka came to a near stop, then resumed running and finished a distant last.
	www.jsonline.com /sports/oly/track801.html (470 words)

	CNN/SI - Olympics - - Wednesday June 02, 1999 01:15 PM
		LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) -- Outspoken Olympic gold medalist Hassiba Boulmerka caused a diplomatic rift Wednesday when she accused Mexico of discriminating against women athletes.
		Boulmerka, the Algerian who won the women's 1,500 meters at the 1992 Barcelona Games, grouped Mexico along with Pakistan and other Islamic countries where "women really suffer."
		Speaking during a meeting of the IOC 2000 reform commission, Boulmerka -- who said she received death threats from Islamic militants in her country after winning her gold medal -- called on the IOC to fight against "terrorism towards women."
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /olympics/news/1999/06/02/meetings_notebook (540 words)

	IAAF International Association of Athletics Federations - IAAF.org - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Tatyana Tomashova repeated the feat of the great Algerian Hassiba Boulmerka from a decade ago by becoming only the second woman to win two 1500m titles and the first to retain it at the IAAF World Championships in Athletics.
		But in a superb finish, as Chizhenko looked like she was going to take the gold, Tomashova dug deep and powered through to repeat her victory from Paris two years ago.
		Boulmerka achieved her success in 1991 and 1995 but Tomashova's winning time of 4:00.35 was a season's best and what an occasion to do that.
	213.92.22.28 /news/newsId=31766,printer.html (589 words)

	News And Feature - Different pokes for different folks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Her running is a strong political statement in a country where fundamentalist Muslims and Imams attack women for wearing Western garb.
		Boulmerka, wins the world title at the World Championships in Tokyo in 1991.
		However, the Hassiba effect is felt across Algeria as little girls take to pounding the streets.
	web.mid-day.com /wc2003/2003/march/47754.htm (654 words)

	IAAF International Association of Athletics Federations - IAAF.org - News
		On this day at the Barcelona Olympics (8 August 1992) Algeria’s Hassiba Boulmerka, the 1991 World 1500m champion (who won that title again in 1995) made her decisive attack in the Olympic women’s 1500m final with just 200 metres to go.
		Boulmerka zipped past Russian Lyudmila Rogachova (EUN team - former URS nations) taking the race into the final 100m having established a lead of three metres, and eventually crossed the finish line with a clear 10 metres advantage.
		The gold medal was Algeria’s first ever Olympic track and field title, the country having first entered Olympic competition in 1972.
	www.iaaf.org /news/newsId=26533,printer.html (241 words)

	Focus On Diversity \| Articles
		Many of the athletes have often had to travel to European sports centers to receive weekly training because it is not offered in their country.
		Young Muslim women have no doubt, been inspired by two Arab Muslim women, Nawal El Moutawakel of Morocco in 1984 and Hassiba Boulmerka of Algeria 1992.
		Boulmerka faced difficulties in her own country and was forced to train in Europe.
	www.focusondiversity.com /tools/articles/html/sportsdetail.php?newsID=93db85ed909c13838ff95ccfa94cebd9 (343 words)

	Sports5
		Hassiba Boulmerka of Algeria won the gold medal in the 1,500 meters race at the Barcelona Games of 1996, competing in a standard runner's outfit.
		Boulmerka became an outcast, afraid to return to her own country.
		The dress required for women athletes "is a serious matter and we as Muslim countries and even non-Muslim countries must put emphasis on Muslim ladies in sport," said Hashemi, daughter of a former Iranian president and who is now vice president of Iran's national Olympic committee.
	www.sfusd.k12.ca.us /schwww/sch618/Sports/Sports5.html (764 words)

	Vol 39 No 1, January - March 2001, Page 46
		In the 1992 Olympic Games, Algerian middle-distance runner Hassiba Boulmerka received death threats—not support—from some people in her country.
		She should cover herself, they said, and not run with naked legs in front of thousands of men.
		Hassiba replied she was an athlete and was appropriately dressed for the competitions.
	exchanges.state.gov /forum/vols/vol39/no1/p46.htm (1504 words)

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