Barkahoum Drici
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.JPG) Drici during the 2015 Prague Marathon | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | 28 March 1989 |
| Sport | |
| Country |  Algeria |
| Sport | Track and field Cross-country running |
Event | long-distance running |
Barkahoum Drici (born 28 March 1989) is a female Algerian former long-distance runner and cross country runner. She is two times national champion in the 5000 metres. She represented Algeria in both cross-country and in the marathon the World Championships.
Drici made her international debut a junior athlete at the junior women's race at the 2007 IAAF World Cross Country Championships in Mombasa, Kenya. In the same year she improved the national record (under-20) in the 10000 metres to 36:14.95. In 2008 she again represented Algeria in the junior women's race at the 2008 IAAF World Cross Country Championships in Edinburgh, United Kingdom.[1]
As a senior, Drici became national champion in the 5000 metres in 2010 and 2012, winning in 2012 in a new personal record of 16:39.30.[1][2]
In 2015 she won the women's national title at the 29th edition of the Challenge national "Chelda Boulenouar" in Tlemcen.[3][4] She that year also qualified for the women's race of the 2015 IAAF World Cross Country Championships in Guiyang, China.[5]
In the marathon she ran her personal best in a time of 2:42.11 during the 2015 Prague Marathon.[1] With that time she qualified for the marathon event at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics in Beijing, China.[2] She had to abandon the race halfway.[6] She didn't give in the hours after the race a reason for her dropout.[7]
