Cheikh Touré Explained

Cheikhou Tidiane Touré (born January 25, 1970) is a Senegal-born French athlete who specialised in the long jump. He retired after the 2003 season.

His best international performance came in the 1997 World Championships, where he finished 7th.

His personal best jump was 8.46, a result he achieved in Bad Langensalza on June 15, 1997. As this happened before he became a French national, the result was an African record which stood for over twelve years.^[1] Ignisious Gaisah of Ghana jumped 8.51 m at the 2006 African Championships in Athletics, 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. On July 4, 2009, Godfrey Khotso Mokoena of South Africa jumped 8.50 m in Madrid setting a new record.

Competition record

Representing
1988	World Junior Championships	Sudbury, Canada	33rd (q)	Long jump	6.49 m
1989	Jeux de la Francophonie	Casablanca, Morocco	7th	Long jump	7.48 m
1994	Jeux de la Francophonie	Bondoufle, France	6th	4 × 100 m relay	40.69 s
			bgcolor=gold	1st	Long jump	8.06 m
1995	World Indoor Championships	Barcelona, Spain	6th (q)	Long jump	7.86 m^1
	World Championships	Gothenburg, Sweden	18th (q)	Long jump	7.85 m
	All-Africa Games	Harare, Zimbabwe	bgcolor=gold	1st	Long jump	8.10 m
1996	African Championships	Yaoundé, Cameroon	bgcolor=silver	2nd	Long jump	7.79 m
	Olympic Games	Atlanta, United States	16th (q)	Long jump	7.91 m
1997	World Indoor Championships	Paris, France	13th (q)	Long jump	7.84 m
	World Championships	Athens, Greece	7th	Long jump	7.98 m
	Jeux de la Francophonie	Antananarivo, Madagascar	bgcolor=gold	1st	Long jump	8.19 m
Representing
1999	World Championships	Seville, Spain	23rd (q)	Long jump	7.76 m
2000	Olympic Games	Sydney, Australia	20th (q)	Long jump	7.87 m
2001	Mediterranean Games	Radès, Tunisia	6th	Long jump	7.76 m

¹No mark in the final

Notes and References

1. Web site: JORF n° 0201 du 1 septembre 1998 - Légifrance . 2023-11-22 . www.legifrance.gouv.fr.