Ladji Doucouré
Ladji Doucouré | |||||||||||||||||||
nation | France | ||||||||||||||||||
birthday | March 28, 1983 | ||||||||||||||||||
place of birth | Juvisy-sur-Orge | ||||||||||||||||||
size | 185 cm | ||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 75 kg | ||||||||||||||||||
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discipline | Hurdles , sprint | ||||||||||||||||||
Best performance | 12.97 s ( 110 m hurdles ) | ||||||||||||||||||
society | Viry NS Évry Essonne | ||||||||||||||||||
status | active | ||||||||||||||||||
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last change: August 29, 2013 |
Ladji Doucouré (born March 28, 1983 in Juvisy-sur-Orge , Essonne Department ) is a French hurdler whose special distance is the 110 meters .
At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens he reached an international final for the first time and finished eighth. In the following season he experienced his international breakthrough. First he was European indoor champion . It started the summer season with a time of 13.14 s, then increased to 13.02 s and three weeks before the World Athletics Championships in Helsinki in 2005 to 12.97 s. This makes him the second European after world record holder Colin Jackson to break the 13-second mark. Doucouré lived up to his role as a favorite and was world champion ahead of Liu Xiang and Allen Johnson . He won a second gold medal at these world championships as the starting runner of the French 4 x 100 meter relay . In the same year he was voted France's Sportsman of the Year (" Champion des champions ") by the sports newspaper L'Équipe , ahead of World Rally Champion Sébastien Loeb and World Swimming Champion Laure Manaudou . At the 2008 Olympics , Doucouré was fourth. At the 2009 European Indoor Championships he was able to repeat his 2005 title.
In 2019 he took part in the tenth season of the French dance show Danse avec les stars and reached second place.
Ladji Doucouré is 1.85 m tall and has a competition weight of 75 kg.
Web links
- Ladji Doucoure in the database of World Athletics (English)
- Ladji Doucouré in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Danse avec les stars: Sami El Gueddari, une victoire hors du commun , November 24, 2019, www.gala.fr
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SURNAME | Doucouré, Ladji |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French athlete |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 28, 1983 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Juvisy-sur-Orge |