- Aziz Zakari
Aziz Zakari (born
September 2 1976 ) is a Ghanaian athlete specializing in the 100 metres. He was born inAccra ,Ghana . [http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/ENG/BIO/Athlete/2/240512.shtml Athlete biography: Aziz Zakari] , beijing2008.cn, ret: Aug 26, 2008]Participating in the
2004 Summer Olympics , he achieved second place in his 100 metres heat, thus making it through to the second round. Heading into the second round, he was victorious in a tough sprint, before achieving qualification from his semi-final. This good form was not able to continue, as he failed to finish in the final, staged onAugust 22 , renowned as possibly the fastest collective 100 metre race in history, where six of the seven finishing athletes completed the race in ten seconds or less.He finally, for the first time, achieved a sub-10 second run on
June 14 ,2005 inAthens when he ran 9.99 seconds inAsafa Powell 's world record breaking race. The Ghanaian record currently belongs toLeonard Myles-Mills with 9.98 seconds. [ [http://www.athlerecords.net/Records/AFRIQUE/PLEINAIR/RECGHA.txt Ghanaian athletics records] ]In July 2006, Zakari was reported to have failed a drugs test for the banned substance
stanozolol . The test was conducted In-Competition on 29 April 2006 at the IAAF Grand Prix Meeting inDakar . [cite news |author= |title=Provisional Suspension Announcement
url=http://www.iaaf.org/news/Kind=131072/newsId=35234.html |work=IAAF.org |date=2006-07-07 |accessdate=2007-06-10 ] On25 September 2006 theIAAF suspended him for two years. After his suspension Zakari participated at the2008 Summer Olympics in which he ran the fourth time in his 100 metres heat, behind Richard Thompson,Martial Mbandjock andSimone Collio . His time of 10.34 was the third losing time after the 10.25 ofNobuharu Asahara , advancing him to the second round. There he improved his time to 10.24, but was only finishing in fifth place of his heat, causing elimination.Personal Bests
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List of sportspeople sanctioned for doping offences References
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