Ajayi Agbebaku
| Ajayi Agbebaku medal table |
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 Nigeria
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| World championships | ||
| bronze | 1983 Helsinki | Triple jump |
| African Championships | ||
| gold | 1979 Dakar | Long jump |
| gold | 1979 Dakar | Triple jump |
| silver | 1984 Rabat | Triple jump |
Ajayi Agbebaku (born January 6, 1955 ) is a former Nigerian athlete who specialized in the triple jump .
He achieved his first international successes in 1979 as the African champion in the triple jump and in the long jump . At the World Athletics Championships in Helsinki in 1983 , he won the bronze medal in the triple jump behind Zdzisław Hoffmann and Willie Banks with a distance of 17.18 m .
At the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles , Agbebaku finished seventh with 16.67 m. Shortly before, he had won the silver medal at the African Athletics Championships in Rabat . Most recently, he started again at the World Athletics Championships in Rome in 1987 , but was eliminated in qualifying.
Ajayi Agbebaku is 1.85 m tall and had a competition weight of 80 kg.
Top performances
- Triple jump: 17.26 m, July 8, 1983, Edmonton
Web links
- Ajayi Agbebaku in the database of World Athletics (English)
- Ajayi Agbebaku in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Agbebaku, Ajayi |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Nigerian athlete |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 6, 1955 |