Ndiss Kaba Badji

Ndiss Kaba Badji

Personal information
Born	(1983-09-21) 21 September 1983
Height	1.9 m (6 ft 3 in)
Weight	85 kg (187 lb)
Sport
Country	Senegal
Sport	Athletics
Event	Long jump
Medal record African Championships 2008 Addis Ababa Triple jump 2004 Brazzaville Long jump 2010 Nairobi Long jump All-Africa Games 2007 Algiers Triple jump 2015 Brazzaville Long jump 2003 Abuja Long jump 2011 Maputo Long jump
Updated on 26 August 2016

Ndiss Kaba Badji (born 21 September 1983) is a Senegalese athlete who competes in the long jump and triple jump. 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 Kingston, Jamaica. 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. 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 Dakar. Later that season he finished fifth at the African Championships in Athletics. He jumped 7.90, albeit with a wind assistance of 3.6 m/s.

In 2003 he finished fifth at the Universiade and won the silver medal at the All-Africa Games 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 African Championships in July, and on 1 August he jumped 8.20 metres at a high altitude in Sestriere. At the Olympic Games three weeks later, however, he failed to reach the final round.

Then, in an IAAF out-of-competition test conducted in March 2005, Badji tested positive for the illegal substance androstenedione. 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 All-Africa Games 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 triple jump, but did not actually compete.

In 2008 he improved further. At the African Championships only competed in triple jump, but won the gold medal with a new national record of 17.07 metres. At the Olympic Games in August he finished sixth in the long jump competition with a season's best of 8.16 metres. Again he also entered in triple jump, 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 Le Soleil. He was also elected Sportsman of the Year by the Senegalese sports press.

Competition record

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
Representing Senegal
2001	African Junior Championships	Réduit, Mauritius	4th	Long jump	7.08 m
			2nd	Triple jump	15.09 m
2002	World Junior Championships	Kingston, Jamaica	15th (q)	Long jump	7.37 m (wind: -1.5 m/s)
			9th	Triple jump	15.29 m (wind: 0.3 m/s)
	African Championships	Radès, Tunisia	5th	Long jump	7.90 m
2003	All-Africa Games	Abuja, Nigeria	2nd	Long jump	7.92 m
	Afro-Asian Games	Hyderabad, India	2nd	Long jump	7.86 m
2004	World Indoor Championships	Budapest, Hungary	22nd (q)	Long jump	7.54 m
	African Championships	Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo	2nd	Long jump	7.86 m
	Olympic Games	Athens, Greece	27th (q)	Long jump	7.74 m
2005	Islamic Solidarity Games	Mecca, Saudi Arabia	3rd	Long jump	8.02 m
			2nd	Triple jump	16.34 m
2007	World Championships	Osaka, Japan	7th	Long jump	8.01 m
	All-Africa Games	Algiers, Algeria	5th	Long jump	7.84 m
			1st	Triple jump	16.80 m
2008	African Championships	Addis Ababa, Ethiopia	1st	Triple jump	17.07 m (NR)
	Olympic Games	Beijing, China	6th	Long jump	8.16 m
			–	Triple jump	NM
2009	Universiade	Belgrade, Serbia	2nd	Long jump	8.19 m (w)
	World Championships	Berlin, Germany	18th (q)	Long jump	7.98 m
	Jeux de la Francophonie	Beirut, Lebanon	2nd	Long jump	8.32 m
2010	World Indoor Championships	Doha, Qatar	6th	Long jump	7.86 m
	African Championships	Nairobi, Kenya	2nd	Long jump	8.10 m
2011	All-Africa Games	Maputo, Mozambique	3rd	Long jump	7.83 m
2012	World Indoor Championships	Istanbul, Turkey	5th	Long jump	7.97 m
	African Championships	Porto Novo, Benin	1st	Long jump	8.04 m
	Olympic Games	London, United Kingdom	24th (q)	Long jump	7.66 m
2013	World Championships	Moscow, Russia	22nd (q)	Long jump	7.62 m
2014	African Championships	Marrakech, Morocco	8th	Long jump	7.61 m (w)