Ladji Doucouré
Personal information | |
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Nationality | French |
Born | Juvisy-sur-Orge, department of Essonne in France | 28 March 1983
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 |
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.[1]
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 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
Danse avec les stars
- In 2019 he participated in season 10 of Danse avec les stars (the French version of Dancing with the Stars) with his partner Inès Vandamme and finished in 2nd place against Sami El Gueddari & Fauve Hautot with 38% of the votes.
This table shows the route of Ladji Doucouré and Inès Vandamme in Danse Avec Les Stars.
Week | Dancing style | Music | Judge points | Total | Ranking | Result | |||
Patrick Dupond | Shy'm | Chris Marques | Jean-Marc Généreux | ||||||
1 | Samba | Je danse le Mia - IAM | 7 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 24/40 | 7=/10 | No Elimination |
2 | Foxtrot | One - U2 Ft Mary J. Blige | 8 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 25/40 | 5=/10 | Safe |
1+2 | 49/80 | 6=/10 | |||||||
3 | Contemporary dance (+5 Points 1) | Believer - Imagine Dragons | 9 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 39/45 | 2/9 | Safe |
4 | Jive
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River Deep – Mountain High - Celine Dion | 8
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8
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6
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7
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29/40 | 3/8 | Bottom 2 |
5 (with Christian Millette) | Cha-Cha-Cha (in trio with Brahim Zaibat) | Blurred Lines - Robin Thicke | 9 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 30/40 | 3=/7 | Safe |
6 | Quickstep (in quatuor with Cassandra Lecoq & Robine-André Bickindou)
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Incredibles 2 theme - Michael Giacchino
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8
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7
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6
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7
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40/52 | 3/6 | Bottom 2 |
7 | Waltz
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You Don't Own Me - Grace & G-Eazy
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8
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8
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8
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8
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32/40 | 2/5 | Bottom 2 |
8 | Paso Doble (in trio with Jean-Marc Généreux) | King Is Born - Aloe Blacc | 8
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9
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9
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N/A
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57/70 | 2/4 | Safe |
9 | Contemporary dance
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Tout oublier - Angèle & Roméo Elvis
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9
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8
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9
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9
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87/95 | 1/3 | Safe |
10 | Cha-Cha-Cha
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September - Earth, Wind & Fire
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A | N/A | Runner-up (with 38%) |
1 Imposed Figure Bonus Points.
References
- ^ "Watford's Abdoulaye Doucouré: 'Being the second-youngest of eight has helped'". The Guardian. 3 November 2017.
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
- 1983 births
- Living people
- People from Juvisy-sur-Orge
- French sportspeople of Malian descent
- French decathletes
- French male hurdlers
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Olympic athletes for France
- French sportspeople of Senegalese descent
- World Athletics Championships medalists
- Sportspeople from Essonne
- Athletes from Île-de-France
- World Athletics Championships winners
- Black French sportspeople
- French Athletics Championships winners