Ladji Doucouré

Ladji Doucouré

Doucouré at the 2006 Meeting Gaz de France
Personal information
Nationality	French
Born	(1983-03-28) 28 March 1983 Juvisy-sur-Orge, department of Essonne in France
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	75 kg (165 lb)
Sport
Sport	hurdling and sprinting
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)	110m hurdles (outdoor): 12.97 s (Angers, 2005)(+1.0) 60m hurdles (indoor): 7.42 s (Liévin, 2005)
Medal record Men's athletics Representing France World Championships 2005 Helsinki 110 m hurdles 2005 Helsinki 4x100 m relay European Indoor Championships 2005 Madrid 60 m hurdles 2009 Turin 60 m hurdles Jeux de la Francophonie 2013 Nice 110 m hurdles World Junior Championships 2000 Santiago 4x100 m relay 2000 Santiago 110 m hurdles World Youth Championships 1999 Bydgoszcz 110 m hurdles European U23 Championships 2003 Bydgoszcz 110 m hurdles European Junior Championships 2001 Grosseto 4x100 m relay

Ladji Doucouré (born 28 March 1983) is a French track and field athlete.

Biography

Ladji Doucouré's father and mother were Malian and Senegalese respectively. Ladji Doucouré was a football player and decathlete before specializing in hurdling and sprinting. His cousin Abdoulaye Doucouré is a French-Malian footballer.

Career

Doucouré finished fourth in the 60 m hurdles final at the 2003 World Indoor Championships. He was eliminated in the 110m hurdles semi-finals of the 2003 World Championships, his debut appearance in a World Championships. Doucouré competed in only one event – the 110 m hurdles – at the 2004 Olympics, his first Olympic Games. He had the fastest time among all the competitors in each of the first two rounds and in the semi-finals. But he finished eighth and last in the final in a time of 13.76 s; he was actually in second place before clipping the last hurdle.

Doucouré won the 60 m hurdles gold medal at the 2005 European Indoor Championships, his first European Championships, Olympic Games or World Championships medal at the senior level. At the French Athletics Outdoor Championships held in Angers on 15 July 2005, Doucouré won the 110m hurdles for the second consecutive year in a time of 12.97 s, setting a new national outdoor record and becoming he first French athlete to go under 13 seconds in that event. It was the world's best performance that year. At the 2005 World Championships, Doucouré won the 110m hurdles gold medal in a time of 13:07 s, beating 2004 Olympic Champion Liu Xiang by one hundredth of a second and veteran Allen Johnson by three hundredths of a second. He (together with Ronald Pognon, Eddy De Lépine and Lueyi Dovy) also won the gold medal in the 4×100 metres relay event at the same championships. He was named the 2005 L'Équipe Champion of Champions (France category) for his outstanding performance on the track that year.

Doucouré with his gold medal from Turin

Doucouré was eliminated in the 110m hurdles semi-finals of the 2007 World Championships. Doucouré finished fourth in the final of the 110 m hurdles (his only event) at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. The following year, he started strongly by winning the 60 m hurdles gold medal at the 2009 European Indoor Championships. At the 2012 Olympics in London, he finished last in his semi-final heat of the 110m hurdles – the only event that he entered – and thus did not qualify for the final.

Results in the finals of international competitions

• Note: Only the position and time in the final are indicated

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Notes
1999	World Youth Championships	Bydgoszcz, Poland	1st	110 m hurdles – 13.26s
2000	World Junior Championships	Santiago, Chile	3rd	110 m hurdles – 13.84s
2000	World Junior Championships	Santiago, Chile	2nd	4 × 100 m relay – 39.33s
2001	European Junior Championships	Grosseto, Italy	2nd	4 × 100 m relay – 39.76s
2003	European U23 Championships	Bydgoszcz, Poland	1st	110 m hurdles – 13.25s
2003	World Indoor Championships	Birmingham, England	4th	60 m hurdles – 7.58s
2003	European Cup	Florence, Italy	1st	110 m hurdles – 13.55s
2003	European Indoor Cup	Leipzig, Germany	3rd	60 m hurdles – 7.77s
2004	Olympic Games	Athens, Greece	8th	110 m hurdles – 13.76s
2005	European Indoor Championships	Madrid, Spain	1st	60 m hurdles – 7.50s
2005	World Championships	Helsinki, Finland	1st	110 m hurdles – 13.07s
2005	World Championships	Helsinki, Finland	1st	4 × 100 m relay – 38.08s
2005	European Cup	Florence, Italy	1st	110 m hurdles – 13.16s
2005	European Cup	Florence, Italy	3rd	4 × 100 m relay – 38.78s
2006	European Cup	Málaga, Spain	1st	110 m hurdles – 13.27s
2006	European Indoor Cup	Liévin, France	1st	60 m hurdles – 7.62s
2007	European Cup	Munich, Germany	1st	110 m hurdles – 13.35s
2008	Olympic Games	Beijing, China	4th	110 m hurdles – 13.24s
2009	European Indoor Championships	Turin, Italy	1st	60 m hurdles – 7.55s
2013	Jeux de la Francophonie	Nice, France	2nd	110 m hurdles – 13.95s

Track records

As of 15 September 2024, Doucouré holds the following track records for 110 metres hurdles.

Performances in red text are wind-assisted.

Location	Time	Windspeed m/s	Date
Angers	12.97 PB	+ 1.0	15/07/2005
Bydgoszcz	13.23	+ 1.9	20/07/2003
Castres	13.38	+ 2.6	30/07/2014
Málaga	13.27	– 1.5	29/06/2006
Niort	13.29	+ 1.0	05/08/2007
Noisy-le-Grand	13.14	+ 1.5	07/06/2005
Oslo	13.00	– 0.1	29/07/2005

External links

• Ladji Doucouré at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
• Ladji Doucoure at Olympics.com
• Ladji Doucouré at World Athletics
• Media related to Ladji Doucouré at Wikimedia Commons