Ndiss Kaba Badji (born 21 September 1983) is a

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ese athlete who competes in the

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and

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. He is the Senegalese record holder for triple jump, with 17.07 metres, which he achieved when he won the 2008 African Championships. He has a personal best long jump of 8.32 metres, achieved in October 2009 in Beirut, which won him the silver medal at the 2009 Jeux de la Francophonie.

Early career

Badji won a silver medal at the African Junior Championships in 2001. He then competed at the 2002 World Junior Championships in

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. Here, he finished ninth in the triple jump. In the long jump competition he exited in the qualification round with a result of 7.37 metres.. Retrieved on 27 January 2009. He missed the final round by only one centimetre. His personal bests at that time were 7.83 metres in the long jump and 16.30 metres in the triple jump, both achieved in

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. Later that season he finished fifth at the

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. He jumped 7.90, albeit with a

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of 3.6 m/s. In 2003 he finished fifth at the

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and won the silver medal at the

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in Abuja. His distance achieved there—7.92 metres—was a new personal best.

International career

Breakthrough and fall

In 2004 Badji broke the 8-metre barrier for the first time, jumping 8.00 metres at an indoor meet in February in Moscow. In March he competed at the World Indoor Championships, albeit without reaching the final. However, he capitalized on his 8.00 m result during the outdoor season. He won a silver medal at the

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in July, and on 1 August he jumped 8.20 metres at a high altitude in Sestriere. At the

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three weeks later, however, he failed to reach the final round. Then, in an

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out-of-competition test conducted in March 2005, Badji tested positive for the illegal substance

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. As a result, he was barred from competing in the sport between June 2005 and May 2007.

Return

Badji returned from his suspension in time for the 2007 season. In June in Algiers he achieved a long jump of 8.11 m. At the

held in the same city one month later he won the triple jump competition, with a new personal best of 16.80 metres. He entered the 2007 World Championships in Osaka, where he finished seventh in the long jump competition. He was the only Senegalese person to reach a final at the 2008 Olympic Games. He was also scheduled to enter in

, but did not actually compete. In 2008 he improved further. At the

only competed in triple jump, but won the gold medal with a new national record of 17.07 metres. At the

in August he finished sixth in the long jump competition with a season's best of 8.16 metres. Again he also entered in

, but fouled all his jumps. At the 2008 World Athletics Final he finished seventh in the long jump and eighth in the triple jump. In early 2009 it was announced that Badji had been awarded the ''Lion d’Or'' by the newspaper ''

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''. He was also elected Sportsman of the Year by the Senegalese sports press.

Competition record

References

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