Abdelkader Hachlaf

Abdelkader Hachlaf ( Arabic عبد القادر حشلاف, DMG ʿAbd al-Qādir Ḥašlāf ; * August 3, 1978 ) is a former Moroccan track and field athlete who competes in the middle distance and obstacle course. In 2004 he was tested positive for nandrolone in a doping control and was then banned for two years. His younger sister Halima Hachlaf is also a track and field athlete and has specialized in the 800 meter run .

Career

In 2000, he won the Moroccan Championship in the 1500 meter run . In 2001, Hachlaf won the 1,500-meter run at the Mediterranean Games in Radès, came second at the Jeux de la Francophonie in Ottawa and finished eighth at the World Athletics Championships in Edmonton . At the African Athletics Championships in 2002 in Radès and at the World Indoor Athletics Championships in 2003 in Birmingham, he won the bronze medal over the same distance. At the 2003 World Cross Country Championships in Lausanne, he finished sixteenth in the short-distance races and took third place with the Moroccan team in the national ranking.

After that, Hachlaf concentrated more on the obstacle course. At the World Athletics Championships in Paris in 2003 , he came in 13th place. After the end of his two-year doping ban, he won the silver medal in the obstacle course at the 2006 African Athletics Championships in Bambous behind the Kenyan Paul Kipsiele Koech . At the 2007 World Athletics Championships in Osaka, he was ninth, at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing fifteenth.

Abdelkader Hachlaf in the database of World Athletics (English)
Abdelkader Hachlaf in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )