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Dec 08, 1986 37 years old
Moroccan long-distance runner
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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.
