Abderrahmane Hammad

Abderrahmane Hammad Zaheer (Arabic: عبدالرحمن حمٌاد, born May 27, 1977) is the Algerian Minister of Youth and Sports and a former track and field athlete who competed in the high jump.

[12][13] He managed tenth place at the 1999 World Championships in Athletics that year and improved his personal best to 2.32 m in Rovereto in September.

He reached the final round and cleared 2.32 m – sixth other athletes achieved the same mark but Hammad secured the bronze medal through count-back.

[1] He won the high jump at the 2001 Mediterranean Games the following season and was ninth in the final at the 2001 World Championships in Athletics.

[11] He competed at the 2004 Pan Arab Games and took the high jump title with eight centimetres to spare over the opposition.