As a junior runner, he represented his native country of Morocco at the 1981 World Cross Country Championships. His career shows no results through most of the typically peak running years of an athlete, their 20s. After undergoing a change in eligibility, he represented France first in the 1993 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships then in many cross country International championships; the 1994 and 1996 European Cross Country Championships and the 1994, 1997, 1999 and 2000 IAAF World Cross Country Championships.