Elie Bacari

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Elie Bacari
Personal information
NationalityBelgian
Born (2003-10-14) 14 October 2003 (age 21)
Treichville, Côte d'Ivoire
Sport
Sport Athletics
Event Hurdles
Coached byArne Broeders and Bart Bennema [1]
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)60m hurdles: 7.51 (Luxemburg, 2025)
110m hurdles: 13.38 (Turku, 2024)

Elie Bacari (born 14 October 2003) is a Belgian hurdler. [2] He was born in Ivory Coast and moved with his family to Belgium at the age of 6. [1]

Career

Bacari started out as footballer but switched to athletics after having seen his sister perform in it. [3] He first tried his hand at the decathlon. In this discipline, he posted a PB of 7080 points in 2022, qualifying for the 2022 World Athletics U20 Championships in Cali, Colombia. [4] In those Championships, he ended in 20th position, not having finished the final 1500m due to injury. [5] After the 2023 European Athletics U23 Championships in Espoo, Finland, where he participated only in the 110 metres hurdles and just missed out on the finals, Bacari decide to drop the decathlon and to focus from then on exclusively on the high hurdles. [6]

Bacari lowered his 60m hurdles personal best a number of times in January 2024, and ran 7.62 seconds in Luxembourg to place fourth all-time for a Belgian athlete. [7] He won a silver medal in the Belgian National Indoor Championships in February 2024. [8] He competed in the 60m hurdles at the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow, running a personal best 7.58 seconds in the semi final. [9]

He reached the final of the 110m hurdles at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome. [10] He ran a personal best 13.38 seconds for the 110m hurdles in Turku in June 2024. [11] That month, he finished as runner-up at the Belgian Athletics Championships. [12] He qualified for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France via the World Athletics Rankings. He was eliminated in the repechages. [13]

In January 2025, he broke Belgium's national record in the 60m hurdles at the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Tour meeting in Luxemburg. [14]

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