Aziz Zakari

Aziz Zakari (as Abdul Aziz Zakari ; born June 8, 1976 in Accra ) is a Ghanaian athlete who specializes in the 100-meter run .

In 2002 he became African champion over 100 and 200 meters . He came at the 2001 World Athletics Championships in Edmonton for the first time in a major championship final and finished eighth. At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, he also qualified for the final, but did not finish the run. A year later he qualified again for the final at the World Athletics Championships in Helsinki in 2005 and was eighth like in Edmonton. He set his personal best on June 14, 2005 at the Grand Prix Meeting in Athens with 9.99 seconds. In 2006 he was third in the world rankings behind Justin Gatlin and Asafa Powell when he tested positive for stanozolol on April 29 after an athletics meeting in Dakar . On September 22, 2006, the International Athletics Federation IAAF announced a 2-year doping ban, which ended on June 8, 2008.

Aziz Zakari has a competition weight of 73 kg with a height of 1.77 m.

Web links

• Aziz Zakari in the database of World Athletics (English)