Sunday Bada
Sunday Bada ( born June 22, 1969 in Kaduna, Nigeria, † December 12, 2011 in Lagos) was a Nigerian sprinter who specialized in the 400 meters.
Career
He was active in the 1990s and won two gold medals in individual competition:
Sunday Bada participated in three Olympic Games.
However, as a loner, he was able to record any success. As he pushed forward in 1992 in Barcelona and 1996 in Atlanta until the semi-finals, he came in 2000 in Sydney over the quarter-finals not get out. For this, however, he proved to be a mainstay of the Nigerian 4x 400 meter relay team that twice reached the final:
- Sydney 2000: Only winning the silver medal in 2:58,68 min (Team: . Clement Chukwu Jew Monye, Sunday Bada as 3rd runner -cage rotor and Enefiok Udo- Obongy ) behind the U.S. (Gold in 2:56,35 min. ) and in Jamaica ( bronze in 2:58,78 min) in August 2008, originally victorious American squadron was subsequently disqualified for a doping offense runner Antonio Pettigrew her. Since July 2012, the Nigerian squadron was officially awarded the gold.
1996 Atlanta resigned from the Nigerian season in the semifinals. The post-Olympic year 1997, however, was the year of his greatest triumph. At the World Indoor Championships in Paris in 1997, he won in the African indoor record time of 45.51 seconds the title after he had already won in the previous World Indoor Championships two silver medals:
- World Indoor Championships in Paris in 1997: gold in 45.51 s before the British Jamie Baulch ( silver in 45.62 s ) and the Japanese Shunji Karube ( bronze in 45.76 s )
- World Indoor Athletics Championships in Barcelona in 1995: Silver in 46.38 s behind the Americans Darnell Hall ( gold in 46.17 s ) and before the Russians Mikhail Vdovin ( bronze in 46.65 s )
- World Indoor Championships in Toronto in 1993: Silver in 45.75 s behind the American Butch Reynolds ( gold in 45.26 s ) and before the Australians Darren Clark ( bronze in 46.45 s )
At the World Indoor Championships in Maebashi in 1999 and 2001 in Lisbon, he retired with 47.07 s and 48.18 s from the semi-finals.
An outdoor world championships five times he took part in a row, but could only reach the finals twice:
- World Championships in Stuttgart in 1993: 5th place in 45.11 s
- 1995 World Championships in Gothenburg: 8th in 45.50 s and bronze as the final Relay runners in 3:03,18 min after the United States and Jamaica, which were both under 3 minutes.
In the following World Championships its power curve continuously decreased: 1997 in Athens, he had 7 out of the semifinal ( 45.96 s ), 1999 in Seville than 5 of the quarterfinals ( 45.69 s ) and 2001 in Edmonton as a fifth of the flow line ( 46.12 s ) terminate the competition.
- At the Africa Championships, the counterpart to the European Championships, Sunday Bada participated in Cairo only in 1990. He won two bronze medals: 200 m in 21.05 s behind the Kenyans Joseph Gikonyo ( gold in 20.89 s ) and his compatriot Abdullahi Tetengi ( silver in 21.01 s )
- 400 m in 46.19 s behind the Kenyans Samson Kitur ( gold in 45.15 s ) and David Kitur ( silver in 46.13 s )
- The Pan-African Games in 1991 in Cairo and 1995 in Harare, he won in 45.81 s and 45.03 s respectively the silver medal behind Samnson Kitur ( gold in 45.40 s and 44.36 s )
- In 1993 he won the final of the Grand Prix in London in 45.28 s 7th place
- In 1994 he won at the Commonwealth Games in Victoria (Canada) behind the Kenyans Charles Gitonga and the British Du'aine Ladejo the bronze ( 45.45 s )
Sunday Bada won nine national championships:
Personal bests:
- Outdoor: 44.63 s, run on 16 August 1993 in Stuttgart
- Hall: 45.51 s, run On 9 March 1997 in Paris
Sunday Bada was 1.88 m tall, and brought in his playing days 79 kg on the scales.
Death
Sunday Bada was found lifeless in Lagos on 12 December 2011. The cause of death is still unknown.