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Brahim Boulami (; born April 20, 1972 in Safi) is a Moroccan
athlete An athlete is most commonly a person who competes in one or more sports involving physical strength, speed, power, or endurance. Sometimes, the word "athlete" is used to refer specifically to sport of athletics competitors, i.e. including track ...
who set two
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s in the 3,000 meter steeplechase, 7:55.28 and 7:53.17. The latter was overturned because he tested positive for the banned
performance-enhancing drug Performance-enhancing substances (PESs), also known as performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs), are substances that are used to improve any form of activity performance in humans. Many substances, such as anabolic steroids, can be used to improve at ...
EPO. Boulami was banned for two years in 2002 after the positive test. His time of 7:55.28 in the 3000 meter steeplechase from the year before the positive test is currently the fourth fastest ever run. His older brother
Khalid Boulami Khalid Boulami (born Safi, Morocco, August 7, 1969) is a Moroccan long distance runner who won a bronze medal in the 5000 metres at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta. At the World Championships, he won two silver medals in the 5000 metres in 19 ...
is an Olympic bronze medalist.


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List of sportspeople sanctioned for doping offences The following is an incomplete list of sportspeople who have been involved in doping offences. It contains those who have been found to have, or have admitted to having, taken illegal performance-enhancing drugs, prohibited recreational drugs or ...


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* Living people 1972 births Moroccan male steeplechase runners Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Morocco Doping cases in athletics Moroccan sportspeople in doping cases Sportspeople from Safi, Morocco Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Morocco Athletes (track and field) at the 1997 Mediterranean Games Athletes (track and field) at the 2005 Mediterranean Games Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field) Goodwill Games medalists in athletics Mediterranean Games medalists in athletics FISU World University Games silver medalists for Morocco FISU World University Games bronze medalists for Morocco Medalists at the 1995 Summer Universiade Competitors at the 1998 Goodwill Games Competitors at the 2001 Goodwill Games Goodwill Games gold medalists in athletics {{morocco-athletics-bio-stub