Ignisious Gaisah
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| Full name | Anthony Ignisious Gaisah Essuman | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Ghana (1999–2013) Netherlands (since 2013)
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| birthday | 20th July 1983 (age 37) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| place of birth | Kumasi , Ghana | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| size | 186 cm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 70 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| discipline | Long jump | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best performance | 8.43 m | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| society | PAC Rotterdam | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| National squad | since 2013 (1999–2013: Ghana) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| status | active | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Anthony Ignisious Gaisah Essuman (born July 20, 1983 in Kumasi , Ghana ) is a Dutch long jumper of Ghanaian origin.
Gaisah, who took up the role of Anthony Essuman before he moved to the Netherlands in 2001, won the national championship title in the long jump in 1999 with a width of 7.40 m and was thus appointed to the national team for the first time and celebrated at the Junior African Championships 1999 in Tunis his first international success when he won the bronze medal with a width of 7.42 m. In 2002 he broke the African junior continental record with a width of 8.12 m, which lasted until 2010.
Gaisah gained more international attention in August 2003, when he was in the lead after the second attempt at the World Championships in Paris and ended up in fourth place with 8.13 m. After winning the Africa Games in Abuja in 2003 with a width of 8.30 m, Gaisah jumped at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens with a national record of 8.24 m and finished sixth. At the World Championships in Helsinki in 2005 , he jumped the national record with 8.34 m and won the silver medal behind Dwight Phillips (USA). In 2006 he won the gold medal at the World Indoor Championships in Moscow and at the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne . On July 14, 2006, Gaisah set his personal best and a new national record at a competition in Rome with 8.43 m . On February 2 of the same year, he had already broken the African indoor record, which is still valid today, to 8.36 m in Stockholm.
In 2006 Gaisah was awarded the Grand Medal . Gaisah took Dutch citizenship in July 2013 and has been on the Dutch national team ever since.
On August 16, 2013, Gaisah won the silver medal in his first international competition under the Dutch flag at the World Championships in Moscow, Russia , celebrating his greatest success since 2006. With a width of 8.29 m, he also improved the 25-year-old Dutch record by Emiel Mellaard by ten centimeters.
He won the bronze medal at the 2016 European Championships in Amsterdam .
Gaisah is 1.86 m tall and has a competition weight of 70 kg. He starts for the club PAC Rotterdam .
Web links
- Ignisious Gaisah in the database of World Athletics (English)
- Ignisious Gaisah in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
- Ignisious Gaisah: A shorter name to jump further , in: iaaf.org (July 20, 2004)
Individual evidence
- ^ Ghanaian Championships , in: gbrathletics.com
- ^ African Junior Championships , in: gbrathletics.com
- ↑ Semenya lines up as dark horse but still favorite , in: supersport.com
- ↑ Men Long Jump World Championship 2003 ( Memento of the original from March 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , in: todor66.com
- ↑ Biography: GAISAH Ignisious ( Memento of the original from April 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , in: melbourne2006.com.au
- ↑ Ghana Honors Her Heroes, Heroines , in: ghanaweb.com
- ^ "The Grand Medalists were mostly sports personalities, actors, actresses and musicians. They included Wilberforce Mfum, Ben Cofie, Margaret Simpson, Michael Ahey, DK Poison, Mohammed Polo, Ignatius Gaisah, Kwaw Ansah, Robert Owusu, David Dontoh and Kwaku Darko, popularly known as Super OD. “ Gaisah dumps Ghana for Holland , in: ghanaweb.com
- ↑ ZILVER VOOR GAISAH , in: telegraaf.nl
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Gaisah, Ignisious |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Essuman, Anthony (former competition name); Gaisah Essuman, Anthony Ignisious (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ghanaian athlete |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 20, 1983 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kumasi , Ghana |