- Naman Keïta
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Naman Keïta at the Golden League 2006, Gaz de FranceMen’s athletics Competitor for 
FranceOlympic Games Bronze 2004 Athens 400 m hurdles World Championships Gold 2003 Paris 4x400 m relay Naman Keïta (born 9 April 1978 in Paris, France) is a track and field athlete, who specialises in the 400 metre hurdles, competing internationally for France. He was a bronze medalist in the 400 metres hurdles at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece.
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Personal
Keïta was born in Paris to a Malian father and an Algerian mother.[1] His hobbies are cooking and jazz music.
Career
Naman Keïta started running while in primary school. He worked for six months as a postman, before stopping to focus his energies on the World Championships and Olympic Games. He is able to use a 12 stride pattern between the hurdles. He competed internationally for Mali until the end of 1999, when he switched his allegiance to France.
He finished fourth in the 400 m hurdles final at the 2006 European Athletics Championships.
Keïta was caught for using a prohibited substance (testosterone) before the World Athletics Championship in Osaka 2007.[2]
See also
- List of sportspeople sanctioned for doping offences
References
External links
- IAAF profile for Naman Keïta
World Champions in Men's 4×400 m Relay 1983: Soviet Union • 1987: United States • 1991: Great Britain • 1993 – 1995: United States 1997: Great Britain • 1999: Poland • 2001: Bahamas • 2003: France • 2005 – 2011: United States
European Champions in Men's 4 x 400 m relay 1934: Germany (Hamann, Scheele, Voigt, Metzner) • 1938: Germany (Blazejezak, Bues, Linnhoff, Harbig) • 1946: France (Santona, Cros, Chef d’Hotel, Lunis) • 1950: Great Britain (Pike, Lewis, Scott, Pugh) • 1954: France (Haarhoff, Degats, Martin du Gard, Goudeau) • 1958: Great Britain (Sampson, MacIsaac, Wrighton, Salisbury) • 1962: West Germany (Kindermann, Schmitt, Reske, Kinder) • 1966: Poland (Werner, Borowski, Grędziński, Badeński) • 1969: France (Bertould, Nicolau, Carette, Nallet) • 1971: West Germany (Schlöske, Jordan, Jellinghaus, Köhler) • 1974: Great Britain (Cohen, Hartley, Pascoe, Jenkins) • 1978: West Germany (Weppler, Hofmeister, Herrmann, Schmid) • 1982: West Germany (Skamrahl, Schmid, Giessing, Weber) • 1986: Great Britain (Redmond, Akabusi, Whittle, Black) • 1990: Great Britain (Sanders, Akabusi, Regis, Black) • 1994: Great Britain (McKenzie, Black, Whittle, Ladejo) • 1998: Great Britain (Hylton, Baulch, Thomas, Richardson) • 2002: Great Britain (Deacon, Elias, Baulch, Caines) • 2006: France (Djhone, M'Barke, Keïta, Raquil) • 2010: Russia (Dyldin, Aksyonov, Krasnov, Trenikhin)
Categories:- 1978 births
- Living people
- French hurdlers
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Olympic athletes of France
- French people of Malian descent
- French people of Algerian descent
- Doping cases in athletics
- French sportspeople in doping cases
- Olympic medalists in athletics (track and field)
- French athletics biography stubs
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