Sadik Mikhou (born 25 July 1990) is a Moroccan-born

middle-distance runner Middle-distance running events are track races longer than sprints, ranging from 500 metres up to . The standard middle distances are the 800 metres, 1500 metres and mile run, although the 3000 metres may also be classified as a middle-distanc ...

who since 2015 runs internationally for

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. He competed at the 2017 World Championships finishing sixth. Additionally, he won the gold at the

2017 Islamic Solidarity Games The 4th Islamic Solidarity Games () was a multinational, multi-sport event that was held in Baku, Azerbaijan, from May 12 to 22, 2017. Previously, the event was held in Saudi Arabia in 2005 and Indonesia in 2013. The second event, originally sch ...

. He switched his allegiance from Morocco. On 8 August International Testing Agency confirmed that Alsadik Mikhou has been provisionally suspended for receiving a

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during the Tokyo Olympics. This marks his second suspension, as he was suspended in 2018 for 2 years.

International competitions

¹Did not finish in the final

Personal bests

Outdoors *

800 metres The 800 metres, or 800 meters (American and British English spelling differences#-re.2C -er, US spelling), is a common track running event. It is the shortest commonly run middle-distance running event. The 800 metres is run over two laps of a ...

– 1:46.55 (Rabat 2014) *

1000 metres The 1000 metres, 1 kilometer run, or 1K run is an uncommon middle-distance running event in track and field competitions. It consists of two and a half laps around an outdoor 400 m track, or five laps around an indoor 200 m track. The 1000 ...

– 2:22.28 (Rabat 2011) *

1500 metres The 1500 metres or 1500-metre run is the foremost middle distance track event in athletics. The distance has been contested at the Summer Olympics since 1896 and the World Championships in Athletics since 1983. It is equivalent to 1.5 kilomet ...

– 3:31.34 (Hengelo 2017) *

3000 metres The 3000 metres or 3000-metre run is a track running event, also commonly known as the "3K" or "3K run", where 7.5 laps are run around an outdoor 400 m track, or 15 laps around a 200 m indoor track. It is debated whether the 3000 m sho ...

– 7:39.02 (Paris 2016) * 10 kilometres – 28:05 (Doha 2017)

References

1990 births Living people Bahraini male middle-distance runners Moroccan male middle-distance runners World Athletics Championships athletes for Bahrain Athletes (track and field) at the 2018 Asian Games Asian Games athletes for Bahrain Moroccan emigrants to Bahrain Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Bahrain Bahraini sportspeople in doping cases Doping cases in athletics Islamic Solidarity Games gold medalists for Bahrain Arab Athletics Championships winners 21st-century Moroccan sportsmen {{Bahrain-athletics-bio-stub