Abderrahim Ougra

The Moroccan athlete Abderrahim Ougra didn't start practicing athletics until he arrived in Spain in 2016. Since he didn't know anyone or the language of his host country when he arrived in Girona at the age of 16, he started running on his own to keep busy. As a result of that, he wanted to try training in a club and joined GEiEG, where he met his current coach: Josep Badosa.

In 2020, the quarantine caused by the COVID-19 pandemic kept him stopped for a long period, which was about to make him abandon the practice of athletics, but after a progressive return to training he got to attend the Spanish Outdoor Championship in 3000 meters steeplechase, the event in which he had begun to specialize, where at only 20 years old he achieved a meritorious sixth place despite participating out of competition due to his Moroccan nationality.

His progression has led him to break the barrier of eight and a half minutes for the first time in 2022, which brings him closer to the international elite of his modality.