Massoud Azizi

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Massoud Azizi athletics

Massoud Azizi

nation Afghanistan
birthday 2nd February 1985
size 173 cm
Weight 63 kg
Career
discipline Short distance run
Best performance 7.25 s (60 m indoor)
11.11 s (100 m)
22.65 s (200 m)
status unknown

Massoud Azizi (born February 2, 1985 ) is an Afghan athlete . He was a member of the five-man team with which Afghanistan participated in the 2004 Summer Games for the first time since the 1996 Olympic Games .

Azizi was discovered in 2003 while training in the stadium in the Afghan capital Kabul by Zoi Livaditou , a representative of the Greek Foreign Ministry in Afghanistan. At her instigation and at the invitation of the International Olympic Committee , Azizi and four other Afghan athletes were given the opportunity to prepare for the 2004 Olympic Games in Greece.

Under the guidance of Grigoris Kontos , the former coach of the Greek 200 m Olympic champion Konstantinos Kenteris , Azizi managed to improve his time over 100 m from 11.74 seconds to 11.16 seconds within three months. He could not achieve this time in the Olympic prelim on August 21, 2004. With 11.66 seconds he was seventh of his prelim. In the final score, Azizi came in 79th place.

The following year he took part in Incheon at the 16th Asian Championships , but also failed in the run-up. In 2008 he took part in the Olympic Games in Beijing part in the 100-meter race.

At the 2013 World Cup , his doping test was positive for nandrolone and he was banned for two years.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Massoud Azizi on the official website of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games ( Memento of March 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (English) accessed on August 11, 2008
  2. ↑ 7 doping cases at the World Cup in Moscow sport1 September 20, 2013 ( Memento of the original from July 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sport1.de
  3. ↑ Athletes currently suspended from all competitions in athletics following an Anti-Doping Rule Violation as at: 04.12.14 IAAF December 4, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Azizi, Massoud
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Afghan athlete
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd February 1985