Mourad Marofit

{{short description|Moroccan long-distance runner}}

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| birth_place = Khemisset, Morocco

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Mourad Marofit ({{langx|ar|مراد ماروفيت}}; born January 26, 1982, in Khemisset) is a Moroccan long-distance runner.{{cite sports-reference|title = Mourad Marofit|url = https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ma/mourad-marofit-1.html|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200418100232/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ma/mourad-marofit-1.html|url-status = dead|archive-date = 18 April 2020|access-date = 28 January 2013}} He set his personal best time of 13:02.84, by winning the men's 5000 metres at the KBC Night of Athletics in Heusden-Zolder, Belgium.{{cite news|last=Hendrix|first=Ivo|title=Paul Kipsiele Koech sets World leading 8:00.57, Hellebaut jumps 2.00m in Heusden-Zolder|url=http://www.iaaf.org/news/news/paul-kipsiele-koech-sets-world-leading-80057|publisher=IAAF|date=21 July 2008|accessdate=28 January 2013}}

Marofit represented Morocco at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he competed for the men's 5,000 metres. He ran in the second heat against thirteen other athletes, including Kenya's Edwin Cheruiyot Soi, who later won the bronze medal in the final. He finished the race in eighth place by five seconds behind New Zealand's Adrian Blincoe, with a time of 14:00.76. Marofit, however, failed to advance into the final, as he placed thirtieth overall, and was ranked farther below four mandatory slots for the next round.{{cite web|title=Men's 5000m Round 1 – Heat 2 |url=http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/trackandfield/resultsandschedules/rsc=ATM050900/index.html |publisher=NBC Olympics |accessdate=28 January 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120821154200/http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/trackandfield/resultsandschedules/rsc%3DATM050900/index.html |archivedate=21 August 2012 }}

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