Yusuf Alli

Yusuf Alli (born 28 July 1960 in Lagos) is a retired Nigerian long jumper, best known for his gold medal at the 1990 Commonwealth Games.

His personal best is 8.27 metres, achieved at the 1989 African Championships in Athletics in Lagos. This is the Nigerian record. also 8.39 at the commonwelth games (1990) 2nd world cup in athletics 1989 barcelona Spain African captain longest Nigeria captain technical director athletic federation of Nigeria manager COJA committee for 8th All African games

Achievements

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Notes
Representing Nigeria
1980	Olympic Games	Moscow, Soviet Union	24th
1983	Universiade	Edmonton, Canada	1st
1983	World Championships	Helsinki, Finland	8th
1984	Olympic Games	Los Angeles, United States	9th
1984	African Championships	Rabat, Morocco	2nd
1987	All-Africa Games	Nairobi, Kenya	2nd
1987	World Championships	Rome, Italy	11th
1988	Olympic Games	Seoul, South Korea	14th
1988	African Championships	Annaba, Algeria	1st
1989	African Championships	Lagos, Nigeria	1st	8.27 m NR
1990	Commonwealth Games	Auckland, New Zealand	1st
1991	All-Africa Games	Cairo, Egypt	2nd

External links

Yusuf Alli profile at IAAF

Commonwealth Games champions in men's long jump

1930: Len Hutton (CAN)
1934: Sam Richardson (CAN)
1938: Harold Brown (CAN)
1950: Neville Price (SAF)
1954: Ken Wilmshurst (ENG)
1958: Paul Foreman (JAM)
1962: Michael Ahey (GHA)
1966–70: Lynn Davies (WAL)
1974: Alan Lerwill (ENG)
1978: Roy Mitchell (ENG)
1982–86: Gary Honey (AUS)
1990: Yusuf Alli (NGR)
1994: Obinna Eregbu (NGR)
1998: Peter Burge (AUS)
2002: Nathan Morgan (ENG)
2006: Ignisious Gaisah (GHA)
2010: Fabrice Lapierre (AUS)
2014: Greg Rutherford (ENG)

Summer Universiade champions in men's long jump

1959: Attilio Bravi (ITA)
1961–1965: Igor Ter-Ovanesyan (URS)
1967: Naoki Abe (JPN)
1970: Alan Lerwill (GBR)
1973: Valeriy Podluzhniy (URS)
1975: Grzegorz Cybulski (POL)
1977: Nenad Stekić (YUG)
1979: Valeriy Pidluzhnyy (URS)
1981: László Szalma (HUN)
1983: Yusuf Alli (NGR)
1985: Jaime Jefferson (CUB)
1987: Mike Powell (USA)
1989: Jaime Jefferson (CUB)
1991: Alan Turner (USA)
1993: Kareem Streete-Thompson (USA)
1995: Kirill Sosunov (RUS)
1997: Iván Pedroso (CUB)
1999: Olexiy Lukashevych (BLR)
2001: Miguel Pate (USA)
2003: Valeriy Vasylyev (UKR)
2005: Volodymyr Zyuskov (UKR)
2007: Robert Crowther (AUS)
2009: Kim Deok-hyeon (KOR)
2011: Su Xiongfeng (CHN)
2013: Luis Rivera (MEX)
2015: Pavel Shalin (RUS)

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