Ndiss Kaba Badji

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 the 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 m, albeit with a wind assistance of 3.6 m/s. 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 also scheduled to enter in the triple jump, but did not actually compete.

In 2008 he improved further. At the African Championships he 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. At the 2008 World Athletics Final he finished seventh in the long jump and eighth in the triple jump.

Triple jump 15.09 m

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

All-Africa Games Abuja, Nigeria

Long jump 7.92 m Afro-Asian Games Hyderabad, India

Long jump 7.86 m

World Indoor Championships Budapest, Hungary 22nd (q) Long jump 7.54 m African Championships Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo

Long jump 7.86 m Olympic Games Athens, Greece 27th (q) Long jump 7.74 m

Long jump 8.02 m

Triple jump 16.34 m

World Championships Osaka, Japan 7th Long jump 8.01 m

5th Long jump 7.84 m

Triple jump 16.80 m

African Championships Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Triple jump 17.07 m (NR)

6th Long jump 8.16 m – Triple jump NM

Universiade Belgrade, Serbia

Long jump 8.19 m (w) World Championships Berlin, Germany 18th (q) Long jump 7.98 m Jeux de la Francophonie Beirut, Lebanon

Long jump 8.32 m

World Indoor Championships Doha, Qatar 6th Long jump 7.86 m African Championships Nairobi, Kenya

Long jump 8.10 m 2011 All-Africa Games Maputo, Mozambique

Long jump 7.83 m

World Indoor Championships Istanbul, Turkey 5th Long jump 7.97 m African Championships Porto-Novo, Benin

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 Marrakesh, Morocco 8th Long jump 7.61 m (w)