Abdelmalik Lahoulou

Abdelmalik Lahoulou
Abdelmalik Lahoulou at the Olympic Games (2016)
Full name	Abdelmalik Lahoulou
nation	Algeria
birthday	7th May 1992 (age 28)
place of birth	Jijel ,  Algeria
size	183 cm
Weight	72 kg
Career
discipline	400 m hurdles
Best performance	48.39 s
society	GS Petroliers
status	active
Medal table
Africa Games 2 × 0 × 1 × African Championships 1 × 0 × 0 × Summer Universiade 0 × 1 × 1 × Mediterranean Games 0 × 0 × 1 × U20 African Championships 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Africa Games gold Rabat 2019 400 m hurdles gold Brazzaville 2015 400 m hurdles bronze Brazzaville 2015 4 × 400 m  African Championships gold Asaba 2018 400 m hurdles  Universiade bronze Taipei 2017 400 m hurdles silver Gwangju 2015 400 m hurdles  Mediterranean Games bronze Tarragona 2018 4 × 400 m U20 African Championships gold Gaborone 2011 400 m hurdles
last change: December 18, 2019

Abdelmalik Lahoulou (born May 7, 1992 in Jijel ) is an Algerian athlete who has specialized in the 400-meter hurdles . Among other things, he is a two-time winner of the African Games .

Athletic career

Abdelmalik Lahoulou has been taking part in international competitions since 2009, when he qualified for the U18 World Championships in Bressanone. He failed over 400 m hurdles in 55.30 s in the run-up, with the 4 x 400 meter relay he was disqualified in the semifinals. A year later he started in the older age group, which runs over the same hurdles as the adults, at the U20 World Championships in Moncton, Canada. There he ran about two seconds faster than the year before and reached the semifinals, in which he was eliminated in sixth place in his run. In 2011 he won his first gold medal at international championships with his victory at the U20 African Championships in the Botswana capital Gaborone in 51.69 seconds.

In 2013 he finished seventh in the individual over the 400 m hurdles at the Mediterranean Games in Mersin, Turkey, and fourth in the long relay. It was his first competitions at international championships in the adult field. A year later he was the first Algerian champion in the 400 m hurdles. In August he finished fourth at the African Championships in Marrakech in 51.67 s. In July 2015 he took part in the Summer Universiade in Gwangju, Korea. There he won the silver medal in 48.99 s. At the World Championships in Beijing, he made it to the semifinals. In September he also took part in the Africa Games in Brazzaville. He won the 400 m hurdles in a new best time of 48.67 seconds, and he also won bronze in the relay.

In 2016 Lahoulou competed in the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. He survived the preliminary run and then failed to make it into the final as fourth in his semi-final run. A year later, at the World Championships in London, he again just missed the finals in 49.33 s. When he took part in the Summer Universiade for the second time , he won the bronze medal. In 2018 Lahoulou competed at the Mediterranean Games in Tarragona, Spain. In the individual he just missed a medal in fourth, with the 4 x 400 meter relay he won the bronze medal. At the African Championships in Asaba, he won his first gold medal at continental championships in 48.47 s.

In August 2019 Lahoulou took after 2015, again at the Africa Games , this time in Rabat, in part. In 49.08 s he won the gold medal there. At the end of September he also took part in the World Championships in Doha. In the semifinals he ran a new best time in 48.39 s, which also meant a national record. In the final he could not confirm the time and came in last.

Lahoulou studies at the National School of Sports Science in Algiers .

Major competitions

year	event	place	space	discipline	time
Starts for Algeria
2009	U18 world championships	Brixen	20th	400 m hurdles (84 cm)	55.30 s
				4 × 400 m relay	DSQ
2010	U20 world championships	Moncton	29	400 m hurdles	53.00 s
2011	U20 African Championships	Gaborone	1.	400 m hurdles	51.69 s
2013	Mediterranean Games	Mersin	7th	400 m hurdles	51.09 s
			4th	4 × 400 m relay	3: 08.27 min
2014	African Championships	Marrakech	4th	400 m hurdles	51.67 s
2015	Universiade 2015	Gwangju	2.	400 m hurdles	48.99 s
	World championships	Beijing	14th	400 m hurdles	48.87 s
	Africa Games	Brazzaville	1.	400 m hurdles	48.67 s
			3.	4 × 400 m relay	3: 03.07 min
2016	Olympic games	Rio de Janeiro	13.	400 m hurdles	49.08 s
2017	World championships	London	10.	400 m hurdles	49.33 s
	Universiade	Taipei	3.	400 m hurdles	49.30 s
2018	Mediterranean Games	Tarragona	4th	400 m hurdles	49.45 s
			3.	4 × 400 m relay	3: 05.28 min
	African Championships	Asaba	1.	400 m hurdles	48.47 s
			5.	4 × 400 m relay	3: 05.27 min
2019	Africa Games	Rabat	1.	400 m hurdles	49.08 s
	World championships	Doha	8th.	400 m hurdles	49.46 s

Personal best

• 400 m : 46.75 s, May 26, 2018, Palafrugell
• 400 m hurdles : 48.39 s, September 28, 2019, Doha , (Algerian record)

Web links

• Abdelmalik Lahoulou in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Abdelmalik Lahoulou in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Profile from the Universiade 2017