Solomon Bockarie

Dutch sprinter

1.71 m (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in)Weight72 kg (159 lb)SportCountry

NetherlandsSportTrack and fieldEventsprinter

Solomon Bockarie (born 18 May 1987), sometimes Solomon Bayoh (born 18 May 1990),^[1] is a male Dutch sprinter. He competed in the 4 × 100 metres relay at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics in Beijing, China.^[2] He competed in the 2016 Summer Olympics.^[3]

He was born in Makeni, Sierra Leone and is a naturalised Dutch citizen.

Bayoh represented Sierra Leone at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. He competed at the 200 metres and placed eighth in his first round heat in a time of 22.16 seconds, which was not enough to advance to the second round.^[1] He was one of three competitors at the Olympics competing for Sierra Leone. Michaela Kargbo and Saidu Kargbo were the others.^[4] He again represented his birth nation at the 2014 Commonwealth Games.^[5]

In 2022, he failed an out-of-contest drugs test, on the basis of testing positive for the growth hormone GHRP-2; he has claimed that this was due to eating chicken contaminated with the hormone.^[6]^[7]

References

^ ^a ^b "Athlete Biography: BAYOH Solomon". Beijing2008.cn. The Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad. Archived from the original on 9 September 2008. Retrieved 1 September 2008.
^ "WK atletiek: geen estafettefinale Solomon Bockarie". Omroep West (in Dutch).^{[dead link]}
^ "BOCKARIE Solomon". Rio2016.com. Rio 2016 Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 6 August 2016. Retrieved 13 August 2016.
^ Sierra Leone sportsillustrated.com 2008 Summer Olympics
^ "Solomon Bockarie". Glasgow 2014. Archived from the original on 14 February 2017. Retrieved 12 February 2017.
^ "Dutch athlete blames positive doping test on cheap chicken". NL Times. 30 August 2022.
^ WION Web Team (1 September 2022). "Bizarre! Solomon Bockarie fails dope test, Dutchman shifts blame on 'chicken with hormones'". WION. Retrieved 17 December 2022.