Sala Hissou: 10.000m world
record holder in Turin
March
12 1997
 MONTE CARLO - Monaco - Salah Hissou,
world record holder at 10.000m will lead the
Moroccan team at the 25th IAAF -
Pirelli World Cross Country Championships, which
will take place in the Parco del Valentino in
Turin on 23 March. Morocco are with Kenya,
Ethiopia, Great Britain and Spain among the
favourite teams for success in the senior
men’s category of the competition. In last
year’s event in Cape Town, Salah Hissou won
silver close on the heels of Paul Tergat (KEN).
The Moroccan team also took a second place after
Kenya - calculated on the six best placings in
the senior men’s event.
25 year old Salah
Hissou is a splendid distance runner and hit the
limelight with a third place in the 1995 World
Cross Country Championships. In 1996, after his
second place in Cape Town, he went on to take a
bronze in the 10 000m in Atlanta and finished the
year gloriously in Brussels on 23 August when he
took Haile Gebrselassie’s record for the
distance with a time of 26:38.08. Hissou, who has
personal bests of 7:30.46 over 3000m and 12:50.80
in the 5000m will make his first appearance this
season in Turin after a serious period of
training just for the World Cross Country
Championships.
In the fierce
battle in perspective with two-time world
champion in this event, Paul Tergat and the
redoubtable runners of Kenya, Hissou will be able
to count on the back-up of Ismail Sghir, 3000m
silver medallist in the recent World Indoor
Championships in Paris, Khalid Boulami, Brahim
Boulami, Elarbi Khattabi, Abdelaziz Sahere, El
Hassane Lahssini and Zitouna Abderahim. The
latter, racing in the vest of the CUS Torino, was
the winner of the 1996 Italian cross country
championships for clubs and came 13th
in the Cape Town World Championships.
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Salah Hissou of Morocco, silver medallist
in last year's Championships will make his first
appearance this year in the 25th IAAF - Pirelli
World Cross Country Championships in Turin 23
March.
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