Abdelaziz El Idrissi, Date of Birth

    

Abdelaziz El Idrissi

Moroccan long-distance runner

Date of Birth: 08-Dec-1986

Profession: athletics competitor

Nationality: Morocco

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About Abdelaziz El Idrissi

  • Abdelaziz Ennaji El-Idrissi (Arabic: ??? ?????? ?????? ?????????; born 8 December 1986, in Ouled Mrah, Souss-Massa) is a Moroccan long-distance runner.
  • He set his personal best time of 13:06.81 in the men's 5,000 metres at the KBC Night of Athletics in Heusden-Zolder, Belgium.El Idrissi represented Morocco at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he competed for the men's 5,000 metres.
  • He ran in the third heat against fourteen other athletes, including United States' Bernard Lagat, and Ethiopia's Kenenisa Bekele, both of whom were heavy favorites in this event.
  • He finished the race in eleventh place by six seconds behind Switzerland's Philippe Bandi, with a time of 14:05.30.
  • El Idrissi, however, failed to advance into the final, as he placed thirty-first overall, and was ranked farther below four mandatory slots for the next round. At the end of September, 2014, he was arrested after having stolen a smartphone to a biker in Genova, Italy.

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