Moad Zahafi
Moad Zahafi
800 Meters
Quick Facts
Date of Birth: May 9, 1998
Hometown: Casablanca, Morocco
Residence: TBD
Hometown: Casablanca, Morocco
Residence: TBD
Personal Best
800 m: 1:43.69 (2021)
1000 m: 2:20.26 (2021)
1500 m: 3:39.59 (2021)
Accolades
- 2022 NCAA Outdoor 800m Champion
- 2022 NCAA Outdoor 800m First Team All-American
- 2022 NCAA Indoor 800m First Team All-American
- 2022 Big 12 Indoor 1000m Champion
- USTFCCCA Mountain Region Track Athlete of the Year
- Bowerman Award Semifinalist
- 2022 World Championships 800m Semifinalist
Bio
Moad Zahafi is a Moroccan runner who specializes in the 800 metres.
He represented Morocco at the 2019 Summer Universiade in Naples, Italy and he won the silver medal in the men’s 800 metres event. He also competed at the 2019 African Games and the 2019 World Championships without reaching the final.
Zahafi competes at the collegiate level for Texas Tech. On 16 April 2022, he ran a world-leading time of 1:43.69 at the Tom Jones Memorial in Gainesville, Florida, recording the third-fastest time in NCAA history.