event weight height sport birth_date article_title
20km race walk kg 56 1.77 athletics 21 january 1984 hassanine sebei

hassanine sebei

hassanine sebei , , -lrb- born 21 april 1984 in tajerouine -rrb- is a tunisian racewalker who specialises in the 20 kilometres race walk .
he was the 2010 african champion and competed at the 2008 summer olympics and 2012 summer olympics .
he won the silver medal at the 2004 african championships in athletics .
the following year he took gold medals at the 2005 islamic solidarity games and the pan arab championships , as well as bronze medals at both the jeux de la francophonie and the african race walking championships .
he made his debut in the iaaf world race walking cup the following year and finished 57th overall .
he missed out on the medals at the 2006 african championships in athletics , taking fourth place in the event .
sebei took part in the 2007 world championships in athletics and came in 24th place , the second best african performer .
coached by hatem ghoula , he succeeded his tutor to the 20,000 m track walk title at the 2007 pan arab games in november .
at the 2008 african championships in athletics in addis ababa he came in third place and he represented tunisia at the 2008 beijing olympics later that year , where he was 34th in the 20 km walk .
in 2009 he was fourth at the mediterranean games , had a top twenty finish at the world championships and ended the year with a silver medal behind hervé davaux at the jeux de la francophonie .
at the 2010 iaaf world race walking cup he had his best global finish by coming in eleventh place .
he won his first continental title at the 2010 african championships in athletics , setting a personal best and championship record of 1:20:36 .
he gave credit to his coach and fellow athlete hatem ghoula , saying : `` he gives me a lot of advice and helps me a lot .
he is an inspiration to me '' .
