Deji Aliu
Nigerian sprinter
Deji Aliu (born 22 November 1975 in Lagos) is a Nigerian sprinter. He won the 100 metres event at the 2003 All-Africa Games. He also took fourth place in the event at the 2002 Commonwealth Games.
Aliu formed part of the Nigerian relay team which won a bronze medal at the 2004 Olympics. Together with Innocent Asonze, Francis Obikwelu and Daniel Effiong . He won a bronze medal in 4 x 100 metres relay at the 1999 World Championships in Athletics, but the team was later disqualified (in August 2005) because Innocent Asonze failed a doping test in June 1999.
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- 1965: Senegal (N'Diaye, Doumbia, Diop, Mané)
- 1973: Nigeria
- 1978: Ghana (Obeng, Lomotey, Enchill, Karikari)
- 1987: Nigeria
- 1991: Nigeria (Omagbemi, Asonze, Kayode, Ezinwa)
- 1995: Ghana (Hassan, Ali, Tuffour, Nkansah)
- 1999: Nigeria (Aliu, Effiong, Oriala, Asonze)
- 2003: Ghana (Nsiah, Nkansah, Zakari, Myles-Mills)
- 2007: Nigeria (Uche, Metu, Oriala, Fasuba)
- 2011: Nigeria (Emelieze, Metu, Adukwu, Egwero)
- 2015: Ivory Coast (Naliali, Koffi Hua, Cissé, Meïté)
- 2019: Ghana (Safo-Antwi, Kwaku Azamati, Owusu-Antwi, Amoah)
- 2023: Nigeria (Sunday, Ekanem, Akintola, Itsekiri)
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