Successful seventh edition of the Mohammed VI International Athletics Meeting

A successful challenge for the organisers of the 7th Mohammed VI International Athletics Meeting, held this year at the Grand Stadium of Marrakech and enhanced by the presence of HRH Prince Moulay Rachid. For this 2014 edition, the 7th stage of the IAAF World Challenge, no less than 200 renowned athletes representing about forty countries were part of it. An official meeting where the champions went all out so that, in the end, this meeting was punctuated by good times and remarkable performances. In this regard, it is worth mentioning first the best world performance of the year recorded in the women's long jump competition by the American Tianna Bartoletta with a jump of 6.93 m. She finished ahead of her compatriot Funmilayo Jimoh (6.74 m) and the Russian Olga Kucherenko (6.70 m). Still in the women's events, the Jamaican Simone Faicey was able to shatter the meeting record in the 200…