Abdelkader Hachlaf

Abdelkader Hachlaf (Arabic عبدالقادر حشلاف; born August 3, 1978) is a Moroccan athlete who competes in the middle distance and obstacle course. In 2004, he tested positive during a doping control for nandrolone and subsequently banned for two years. His younger sister Halima Hachlaf is also athlete who specializes in the 800 -meter run.

Career

In 2000, he won the Moroccan championship in the 1500 meter race. 2001 won Hachlaf in the 1500 meter race at the Mediterranean Games in Radès, finished second at the Jeux de la Francophonie in Ottawa and finished at the World Athletics Championships in Edmonton eighth. At the Track Championships in 2002 in Africa and Radès at the IAAF World Indoor Championships in Birmingham in 2003, he won over the same distance in each case the bronze medal. At the World Cross Country Championships 2003 in Lausanne, he was in short distance races Sixteenth and finished with the Moroccan team to third place in the national rankings.

After that Hachlaf concentrated increasingly on the obstacle course. At the World Athletics Championships in Paris in 2003, he came on the 13th Place. After the end of his two-year doping suspension he won at the Africa Athletics Championships 2006 in Bambous behind the Kenyan Paul Koech Kipsiele the silver medal in the steeplechase. At the World Athletics Championships 2007 in Osaka, he was ninth at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing Fifteenth.