Madiea Ghafoor

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Madiea Ghafoor athletics

Madiea Ghafoor (2013)
Madiea Ghafoor in Moscow 2013

nation NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands
birthday 9th September 1992 (age 27)
place of birth Amsterdam , Netherlands
size 169 cm
Weight 55 kg
Career
discipline 400 meter run
Best performance 51.60 s
Trainer Oscar Terol, Urta Rozenstruik
National squad since 2013
status active
Medal table
U20 European Championships 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
EAA logo Junior European Championships
bronze Tallinn 2011 400 m
last change: January 3, 2018

Madiea Ghafoor (born September 9, 1992 in Amsterdam ) is a Dutch sprinter who specializes in the 400 meter distance .

Athletic career

Ghafoor gained her first international experience at the 2011 European Junior Championships in Tallinn , where she won the bronze medal over 400 meters and finished fourth with a new U20 national record in the Dutch 4 x 400 meter relay. Two years later she finished sixth over 400 meters and fourth place with the 4 x 100 meter relay at the U23 European Championships in Tampere . At the World Championships in Moscow , she retired with the 4-by-100 relay in the preliminary round.

In 2014 she took part with the relay at the European Championships in Zurich , but could not finish her run in the final there. In 2016 she qualified with the 4 x 400 meter relay for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , in which they set a new national record with 3: 26.98 minutes in the run- up, but still missed the final. In 2017 she was fourth at the IAAF World Relays with the 4 x 100 meter relay. At the world championships she was disqualified with the long sprint relay in the preliminary run ; with the 4 x 100 meter relay, she also did not reach the final .

So far she has been twice the Dutch champion outdoors and four times indoors.

Drug smuggling

After Ghafoor initially disappeared without a trace following the Diamond League meeting in the Moroccan capital Rabat , she was stopped by German customs officers on June 18, 2019 while driving on the A3 near Emmerich . When her car was checked, 50 kilograms of crystal meth and ecstasy and over 12,000 euros in cash were found, and Ghafoor was arrested. On July 25, 2019, she was charged with drug possession in the Kleve District Court . As a result, she did not represent the Netherlands at the World Athletics Championships in Doha . In court, she said she did not know she was transporting drugs. You wanted to dope because of a lack of form and therefore got involved in the transport of doping substances. In November 2019, she was sentenced to eight and a half years in prison.

Top performances

  • 100 meters: 11.42 s (+0.8 m / s), May 26, 2018 in Oordegem
    • 60 meters (hall): 7.25 s, December 30, 2017 in Amsterdam
  • 200 meters: 23.40 s (−0.5 m / s), May 26, 2018 in Oordegem
    • 200 meters (hall): 24.02 s, February 6, 2014 in Stockholm
  • 400 meters: 51.60 s on June 3, 2018 in Hengelo
    • 400 meters (hall): 52.42 s, February 22, 2015 in Apeldoorn

Web links

Commons : Madiea Ghafoor  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Result list of the U20 European Championships in Tallinn 2011
  2. ^ Result list of the U23 European Championships in Tampere 2013
  3. ↑ Drug discovery: Dutch sprinter caught in Germany with 50 kilos of drugs. In: Spiegel Online . July 25, 2019, accessed November 4, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Sprinter sentenced to more than eight years in prison
  5. ↑ Drug smuggling instead of doping procurement: Dutch top sprinter sentenced to eight and a half years in prison. In: Spiegel Online. November 4, 2019, accessed November 4, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Ghafoor, Madiea
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch athlete
DATE OF BIRTH September 9, 1992
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam