Ladji Doucouré

Doucouré as European Indoor Champion 2009

Ladji Doucouré ( born March 28, 1983 in Juvisy -sur -Orge, Essonne département ) is a French hurdler who specializes distance are the 110 meters.

At the Olympic Games in Athens in 2004, he reached for the first time an international finals and finished eighth. The following season, he experienced his international breakthrough. First, he was European Indoor champion. In the summer season, he raced 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 He is the second world record holder Colin Jackson Europeans, of undercutting the 13 -second mark. Doucouré was his role as favorite, and before Liu Xiang and Allen Johnson World Champion. A second gold medal he won at these world championships as a starter for the French 4 x 100 - meter relay. In the same year he was appointed by the sports newspaper L' Équipe France's Sportsman of the Year ( " champion of champions" ) selected before World Rally Champion Sébastien Loeb and world swimming champion Laure Manaudou. At the Olympic Games in 2008 Doucouré fourth. At the European Indoor Championships 2009, he was able to repeat his title from 2005.

Ladji Doucouré has a competition weight of 75 kg at a height of 1.85 m.