Olukayode "Kayode" Elegbede (born 9 September 1955) is a retired

Nigeria Nigeria ( ), , ig, Naìjíríyà, yo, Nàìjíríà, pcm, Naijá , ff, Naajeeriya, kcg, Naijeriya officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa. It is situated between the Sahel to the north and the Gulf o ...

n sprinter and

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 takeoff point. Along with the triple jump, the two events that measure jumping for distance as a ...

er. He won the silver medal at the first

African Championships An African Championship is a top level international sports competition between African athletes or sports teams representing their respective countries or professional sports clubs. List of Championships ;Athletics *African Championships in Ath ...

in 1979, with 7.89—five centimetres behind compatriot Ajayi Agbebaku. He finished eleventh at the 1980 Olympic Games. Here he also finished seventh in the

4 × 100 metres relay The 4 × 100 metres relay or sprint relay is an athletics track event run in lanes over one lap of the track with four runners completing 100 metres each. The first runners must begin in the same stagger as for the indiv ...

, together with Hammed Adio, Olajidie Oyeledun and

Peter Okodogbe Peter Okodogbe (born 27 May 1958) is a former sprinter from Nigeria who specialised in the 100 and 200 metres. In 1978 he won a silver medal at the All Africa Games. In 1980 Okodogbe competed at the Summer Olympics in Moscow Moscow ( , ...

. His personal bests were 8.02 metres in the long jump (1982) and 10.6 seconds in the 100 metres (1980).

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1955 births Living people Nigerian male long jumpers Nigerian male sprinters Athletes (track and field) at the 1980 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Nigeria 20th-century Nigerian people 21st-century Nigerian people {{Nigeria-athletics-bio-stub