Olukayode "Kayode" Elegbede (born 9 September 1955) is a retired

Nigeria Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa. It is situated between the Sahel to the north and the Gulf of Guinea in the Atlantic Ocean to the south. It covers an area of . With Demographics of Nigeria, ...

n sprinter and

long jump The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a takeoff point. Along with the triple jump, the two events that measure jumping for distance as a gr ...

er. He won the silver medal at the first

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in 1979, with 7.89—five centimetres behind compatriot Ajayi Agbebaku. He finished eleventh at the 1980 Olympic Games. Here he also finished seventh in the

4 × 100 metres relay The 4 × 100 metres relay or sprint relay is an athletics track event run in lanes over one lap of the track with four runners completing 100 metres each. The first runners must begin in the same stagger as for the indiv ...

, together with

Hammed Adio Hameed Adio (born 20 January 1959) is a Nigerian sprinter. He competed in the men's 100 metres at the 1980 Summer Olympics The 1980 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad () and officially branded as Moscow ...

, Olajidie Oyeledun and Peter Okodogbe. His personal bests were 8.02 metres in the long jump (1982) and 10.6 seconds in the 100 metres (1980).

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1955 births Living people Nigerian male long jumpers Nigerian male sprinters Athletes (track and field) at the 1980 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Nigeria 21st-century Nigerian people 20th-century Nigerian sportsmen {{Nigeria-athletics-bio-stub