Yusuf Alli

Yusuf Alli
Full name	Yusuf Alli
nation	Nigeria
birthday	July 28, 1960
size	185 cm
Weight	80 kg
Career
discipline	Long jump
status	resigned
Medal table
Commonwealth Games gold 1990 Auckland 8.39 m  Africa Games silver 1987 Nairobi 8.18 m silver 1991 Cairo 7.81 m  African Championships silver 1984 Rabat 7.88 m gold 1988 Annaba 7.78 m gold 1989 Lagos 8.27 m  Universiade gold 1983 Edmonton ?
last change: August 15, 2012

Yusuf Alli (born July 28, 1960 in Edo ) is a former Nigerian athlete and long jumper. He won gold and silver medals at various international tournaments and at the African Athletics Championships in 1989 in Lagos , the capital of his home country at the time, he set the Nigerian long jump record of 8.27 m, which is still valid today.

Six years earlier, Yusuf finished eighth in the final of the 1983 World Athletics Championships in Helsinki . He also took part with the selection of Nigeria in three Summer Olympic Games and reached ninth place in Los Angeles in 1984 . In 1980 in Moscow and 1988 in Seoul , however, he was eliminated in the first round.

Web links

• Yusuf Alli in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Yusuf Alli in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )