Solomon Bockarie

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]

Solomon Bockarie

Personal information
Born	(1987-05-18) 18 May 1987 (age 38) Makeni, Sierra Leone
Height	1.71 m (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in)
Weight	72 kg (159 lb)
Sport
Country	Netherlands
Sport	Track and field
Event	sprinter

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]

See also

• Netherlands at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics