French middle distance runner (1500 metres), who won a bronze medal at the 2001 Mediterranean Games in Tunis and finished fourth at the 2002 European Championships in Munich. He then reached the final at the 2003 World Championships in Paris, but was disqualified as he tested positive for erythropoietin. The IAAF handed him a suspension from September 2003 to September 2005. Choukis claims the substance was injected into his body by an unknown individual led the French Athletics Federation to cut his ban by six months. However, the claim was rejected by the Court of Arbitration for Sport. His personal best time is 3:30.83 minutes, achieved in August 2003 in Zürich. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less
Born: Sun Oct 15 1978 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Strasbourg, France