 El-Abbassi at the 2016 Olympics | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 13 April 1984 (age 40) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 171 cm (5 ft 7 in)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 61 kg (134 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | 1500-half marathon | ||||||||||||||||||||
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El Hassan El-Abbassi (born 13 April 1984)[2][3] is a Moroccan-born long-distance runner who competes internationally for Bahrain. He was the gold medallist in the 10,000 metres at the 2014 Asian Games and the 2015 Asian Athletics Championships. He has a personal best of 27:25.02 minutes for that distance.
El-Abbassi served a three year competition ban from August 2021 to August 2024 for an anti-doping rule violation relating to the use of a prohibited method (homologous blood transfusion) at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.[4]
- ^ El Hassan El-Abbassi Archived 26 August 2016 at the Wayback Machine. rio2016.com
- ^ El Hassan Elabbassi. IAAF. Retrieved on 3 October 2014.
- ^ ELABBASSI Elhassan Archived 3 October 2014 at archive.today. Incheon2014AG. Retrieved on 3 October 2014.
- ^ "Decision of the Athletics Integrity Unit in the case of Mr El Hassan El Abbassi" (PDF). Athletics Integrity Unit. 7 June 2023. Retrieved 15 September 2024.