Ignisious Gaisah
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Ignisious Gaisah is a Ghana
ian athlete competing in the long jump
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Gaisah currently lives and trains in Rotterdam
, the Netherlands. He came to the Netherlands in 2001 and soon flabbergasted everyone at his local club by saying his personal best was 7,85 metres and started proving it as well. He began competing in the national competition for his club P.A.C. Rotterdam. He won every meeting he competed in. He started competing in international meetings around the globe.
Five years later Gaisah was considered as one of the best long jumpers in the world, after jumping 8.34 metres to earn a personal best and a silver medal at the World Championships in Helsinki in 2005, only finishing behind star Dwight Phillips
. On February 2, 2006, in Stockholm
he leaped to an African indoor record that also won him the gold medal in this event by jumping 8.36 metres. He continued his good form to win the 2006 IAAF World Indoor Championships
a month later with a jump of 8.30 metres, followed quickly by the 2006 Commonwealth Games
gold medal with a jump of 8.20 metres.
At the 2006 African Championships in Athletics
Gaisah won the gold medal with an 8.51 m jump, beating Cheick Touré's the African record of 8.46 metres from 1997, but as the tail wind was too strong (+3.7 m/s) the result could not become a new record http://www.iaaf.org/news/Kind=2/newsId=35621.html
Ghana
Ghana , officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country located in West Africa. It is bordered by Côte d'Ivoire to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, Togo to the east, and the Gulf of Guinea to the south...
ian athlete competing in the long jump
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 take off point...
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Gaisah currently lives and trains in Rotterdam
Rotterdam
Rotterdam is the second-largest city in the Netherlands and one of the largest ports in the world. Starting as a dam on the Rotte river, Rotterdam has grown into a major international commercial centre...
, the Netherlands. He came to the Netherlands in 2001 and soon flabbergasted everyone at his local club by saying his personal best was 7,85 metres and started proving it as well. He began competing in the national competition for his club P.A.C. Rotterdam. He won every meeting he competed in. He started competing in international meetings around the globe.
Five years later Gaisah was considered as one of the best long jumpers in the world, after jumping 8.34 metres to earn a personal best and a silver medal at the World Championships in Helsinki in 2005, only finishing behind star Dwight Phillips
Dwight Phillips
Dwight Phillips is an American athlete and a four-time world champion in the long jump...
. On February 2, 2006, in Stockholm
Stockholm
Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...
he leaped to an African indoor record that also won him the gold medal in this event by jumping 8.36 metres. He continued his good form to win the 2006 IAAF World Indoor Championships
2006 IAAF World Indoor Championships
The 11th IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations was held in Moscow from March 10 to March 12, 2006 in the Olimpiyski Sport arena....
a month later with a jump of 8.30 metres, followed quickly by the 2006 Commonwealth Games
2006 Commonwealth Games
The 2006 Commonwealth Games were held in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia between 15 March and 26 March 2006. It was the largest sporting event to be staged in Melbourne, eclipsing the 1956 Summer Olympics in terms of the number of teams competing, athletes competing, and events being held.The site...
gold medal with a jump of 8.20 metres.
At the 2006 African Championships in Athletics
2006 African Championships in Athletics
The 15th African Championships in Athletics were held in Mauritius between August 9 and August 13, 2006. The event was staged at Stade Germain Comarmond in Bambous, Black River district...
Gaisah won the gold medal with an 8.51 m jump, beating Cheick Touré's the African record of 8.46 metres from 1997, but as the tail wind was too strong (+3.7 m/s) the result could not become a new record http://www.iaaf.org/news/Kind=2/newsId=35621.html
Achievements
- 2010 Commonwealth Games2010 Commonwealth GamesThe 2010 Commonwealth Games, officially known as the XIX Commonwealth Games, were held in Delhi, India, from 3 to 14 October 2010. A total of 6,081 athletes from 71 Commonwealth nations and dependencies competed in 21 sports and 272 events, making it the largest Commonwealth Games till date...
- third place - 2006 IAAF World Athletics Final2006 IAAF World Athletics FinalThe 4th IAAF World Athletics Final was held at the Gottlieb-Daimler-Stadion in Stuttgart, Germany on September 9 and September 10, 2006.-Results:-External links:*...
- fourth place - 2006 African Championships in Athletics2006 African Championships in AthleticsThe 15th African Championships in Athletics were held in Mauritius between August 9 and August 13, 2006. The event was staged at Stade Germain Comarmond in Bambous, Black River district...
- gold medal - 2006 Commonwealth Games2006 Commonwealth GamesThe 2006 Commonwealth Games were held in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia between 15 March and 26 March 2006. It was the largest sporting event to be staged in Melbourne, eclipsing the 1956 Summer Olympics in terms of the number of teams competing, athletes competing, and events being held.The site...
- gold medal - 2006 IAAF World Indoor Championships2006 IAAF World Indoor ChampionshipsThe 11th IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations was held in Moscow from March 10 to March 12, 2006 in the Olimpiyski Sport arena....
- gold medal - 2005 IAAF World Athletics Final2005 IAAF World Athletics FinalThe 3rd IAAF World Athletics Final was held at the Stade Louis II, in Monte Carlo, Monaco on September 9, and September 10, 2005.The hammer throw event for men and women had to take place in Szombathely, Hungary on September 3 as the Monaco stadium was not large enough to hold the event.- Medal...
- fourth place - 2005 World Championships in Athletics2005 World Championships in AthleticsThe 10th World Championships in Athletics, under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations , were held in the Olympic Stadium, Helsinki, Finland , the site of the first IAAF World Championships in 1983. One theme of the 2005 championships was paralympic sports, some of...
- silver medal - 2004 IAAF World Athletics Final2004 IAAF World Athletics FinalThe 2nd IAAF World Athletics Final was held at the Stade Louis II, in Monte Carlo, Monaco on September 18, and September 19, 2004.The hammer throw event for men and women had to take place in Szombathely, Hungary a week previous as the Monaco stadium was not large enough to hold the event.One of...
- first place - 2004 Olympic Games - sixth place
- 2003 IAAF World Athletics Final2003 IAAF World Athletics FinalThe 1st IAAF World Athletics Final was held at the Stade Louis II, in Monte Carlo, Monaco on 13 September and 14 September 2003.The hammer throw event for men and women had to take place in Szombathely, Hungary a week previous as the Monaco stadium was not large enough to hold the event.One of the...
- third place - 2003 World Championships in Athletics2003 World Championships in AthleticsThe 9th World Championships in Athletics, under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations, were held from 23 August to 31 August 2003 in the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, France.-Track:...
- fourth place