[1] Benhama, who trains out of Association Handisport Ennasser in Salé, made her senior debut as a T13 classification athlete at a meet in Rabat in 2008.

[2] Later that year she made her full international debut when she was selected as part of the Morocco team to compete at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing.

She began with the 400 metre sprint, qualifying in the fastest time and then setting a new Paralympic record of 55.56 seconds in the finals to take her first gold medal of the Games.

[3] She followed this two days later with another gold, this time in the 200 metres, in which she beat her nearest rival, France's Nantenin Keïta by over half a second.

[2] The birth of her son in 2012, meant that Benhama took a break from racing that year, and was unable to defend her Paralympic titles in London.