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Algeria High jump

Othmane Belfaa

Born: 18 Oct 1961 · 64
Birthplace: Lille, France
On the podium: 1979 – 1992
Olympian: 1× · Moscow

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15 international medals + 8 national titles

All 23 results Report missing info

Biography

World Indoor medallist high jumper. He won several international titles including African, Mediterranean and Pan Arab Games. He competed in 1980 Olympics (28th overall, 2.05m), also took part at the World Champs in three occasions (1983, 1987, 1991) - did not qualified for the final.

Contested inaugural World Indoor Athletics Games in 1985, he finished third after Patrick Sjöberg and Javier Sotomayor in Paris Bercy. This medal still stood one of the two podiums ever held an Algerian at World Indoor (other came from Noureddine Morceli).

He won seven consecutive (1988-94) national titles in high jump.

PERSONAL BESTS
High jump: 2.28 (Amman 1983)
High jump indoor: 2.27 (Paris 1985)

By championship

Championship				Total
World Indoor Championships	0	0	1	1
African Games	2	0	0	2
African Championships	3	1	0	4
Mediterranean Games	2	0	1	3
Pan Arab Games	1	0	1	2
Arab Athletics Championships	3	0	0	3
International total	11	1	3	15

National championships

Championship				Total
Algerian Championships	8	0	0	8
National total	8	0	0	8

Medals 15

Year	Championship	Event	Venue	Place	Mark	Record
1992	Pan Arab Games	HJ	Damascus	1	2.18	CR
1992	African Championships	HJ	Belle Vue Maurel	2	2.16
1991	African Games	HJ	Cairo	1	2.18
1991	Mediterranean Games	HJ	Athens	1	2.28	CR
1990	African Championships	HJ	Cairo	1	2.16
1989	Arab Athletics Championships	HJ	Cairo	1	2.16
1989	African Championships	HJ	Lagos	1	2.20
1987	Mediterranean Games	LJ	Latakia	3	7.61 +1.8
1987	African Games	HJ	Nairobi ↗	1	2.19	CR
1987	Arab Athletics Championships	HJ	Algiers	1	2.20
1985	Pan Arab Games	HJ	Casablanca	3	2.11
1985	World Indoor Championships	HJ	Paris	3	2.27 i	AR
1983	Mediterranean Games	HJ	Casablanca	1	2.26	CR=
1983	Arab Athletics Championships	HJ	Amman	1	2.28	ARCR
1979	African Championships	HJ	Dakar	1	2.15

National results 8

1994 Algerian Championships · Algiers HJ 1 2.16
1993 Algerian Championships · Algiers HJ 1 2.24
1992 Algerian Championships · Algiers HJ 1 2.20
1991 Algerian Championships · Algiers HJ 1 2.15
1990 Algerian Championships · Algiers HJ 1 2.17
1989 Algerian Championships · Constantine HJ 1 2.20
1988 Algerian Championships · Annaba HJ 1 2.20
1980 Algerian Championships LJ 1 72.8