Larbi Bourrada (called sometimes ''Larbi Bouraâda'' or ''Larbi Bouraada''; ; born May 10, 1988, in Rouiba) is an Algerian

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athlete. He is a six-time African champion in decathlon (2008, 2010, 2014, 2018, 2022, 2024) and the African record holder in the event. He has also competed in the

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, winning the

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title in 2011 and two silver medals at the African Championships. In 2012 his doping sample at a competition came back positive for the banned

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, and he was given a two-year ban from athletics.

Biography

As a teenager he won the bronze medal in the decathlon at the

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. In 2009 he surpassed the 8000 point mark for the first time at a competition in Algeria and qualified for the World Championships in Berlin in the decathlon , where he set a new African record with 8171 points . At the

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held in

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, he set a new African record with 8171 points and finished twelfth. He also finished second at the

at the

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with a height of 4.60 m behind

Hamdi Dhouibi Hamdi Dhouibi (born 24 January 1982 in Kairouan) is a Tunisian decathlete. He held the African record with 8023 points, achieved at the 2005 World Championships in Helsinki. The record was broken by Larbi Bouraada of Algeria at the 2009 World ...

from

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. He was Africa's representative at the

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in the high jump, pole vault and the long jump. He also set an Algerian record for the indoor

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that year, scoring 5911 points as a guest athlete at the French Championships. In July 2011 he set a new African record with a total of 8302 points at the

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Combined Event meeting in Germany. He set three personal records in the competition: 100 m (10.61 s), long jump (7.94 m) and discus throw (40.34 m). He finished tenth at the 2011 Athletics World Championships in

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with a total of 8158 points, including two personal bests: 13.56 s in the 110 m hurdles and 4.90 m in the

. He was eliminated from the

in the

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after two false starts at the first event (100 m). The games were held two weeks after the world championships and he said that this was not enough time to recover. He entered the individual pole vault event, however, and won with a personal best of 5.00 m. Returning to the Ratingen meeting in 2012, he again won the competition with an African record score. He set bests in the

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and

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to lead from start to finish and collect 8332 points. However, his doping sample at the competition came back positive for the banned steroid

. Bourrada was disqualified from the event and given a two-year ban from athletics. Bourrada returned to competition during the 2014 season, winning his third African title in Marrakech with a personal best and championship record score of 8311 points.Mulkeen, Jon (2014-08-11
More gold medals and records for Okagbare and Bourrada at African championships

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. Retrieved on 2014-08-15.

Personal bests

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