Bakir Benaïssa

{{Short description|Moroccan long-distance runner (born 1931)}}

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Bakir Benaïssa (born 7 April 1931) is a Moroccan former long-distance runner who competed in the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, finishing 8th in the marathon in 2:21:21.4, and in the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. He won the 10,000 meters and finished second at the 5,000 meters at the Pan-Arab Games in Beirut in 1957, and won the quadrennial Mediterranean Games marathons in 1959 and 1963. He was born in Rabat.[https://www.iaaf.org/news/news/el-guerrouj-and-hammou-win-moroccan-2003-spor El Guerrouj and Hammou win Moroccan 2003 Sports Awards], IAAF, February 13, 2003. Retrieved June 3, 2019. The 1960 Rome marathon resulted in a world record for winner, Ethiopia's Abebe Bikila, with Benaïssa's teammate, Rhadi Ben Abdesselam, finishing a close second.{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1960/ATH/mens-marathon.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417173715/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1960/ATH/mens-marathon.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=April 17, 2020 |title=Athletics at the 1960 Rome Summer Games: Men's Marathon |accessdate=June 4, 2019}}

File:Abebe Bikila 1960 Olympics.jpg (#58), Benaïssa (wearing headband), Arthur Keily (#46), Aurèle Vandendriessche (#36), and ben Abdesselam (#185).|300px|alt= Benaïssa competing at the 1960 Summer Olympics, near the 10-kilometre mark]]