Abderrahmane Hammad [SEP] place of birth
Abderrahmane Hammad
Abderrahmane Hammad Zaheer (, born May 27, 1977, in Dellys) is a former Algerian track and field athlete who competed in the high jump. He represented his country at the Summer Olympics in 2000, taking the bronze medal and made a second appearance at the 2004 Athens Olympics. His personal best of 2.34 m is the Algerian record for the event. He retired from the sport in 2010.
Biography.
Hammad began his international career as a junior in 1994 with high jump silver medals
the women's section. Sudan won its first titles at the competition, courtesy of Mohammed Yagoub's middle-distance double.
In the men's section, Algeria provided the most prominent athletes. Abderrahmane Hammad improved one place from the last edition to win the high jump – an event he won an Olympic medal in four years later. Two others here would medal at the 2000 Sydney Olympics: 800 metres bronze medallist Djabir Saïd-Guerni and 1500 metres runner-up Ali Saïdi-Sief. Two Saudi Arabian medallists later