- Deji Aliu
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Medal record Men's Athletics Competitor for 
NigeriaOlympic Games Bronze 2004 Athens 4x100 m relay World Championships Disqualified 1999 Seville 4x100 m relay All-Africa Games Gold 2003 Abuja 100 m Deji Aliu (born November 22, 1975) 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.
Personal bests
- 100 metres - 9.95 (2003)
- 200 metres - 20.25 (2002)
External links
- IAAF profile for Deji Aliu
- IAAF: Focus on Athletes
All-Africa Games Champions in Men's 100 m 1965: Gaoussou Koné (CIV) • 1973: Ohene Karikari (GHA) • 1978: Amadou Meité (CIV) • 1987: Chidi Imoh (NGR) • 1991: Frankie Fredericks (NAM) • 1995: Davidson Ezinwa (NGR) • 1999: Leonard Myles-Mills (GHA) • 2003: Deji Aliu (NGR) • 2007: Olusoji Fasuba (NGR) • 2011: Amr Seoud (EGY)
Categories:- 1975 births
- Living people
- Nigerian hurdlers
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
- Olympic athletes of Nigeria
- Olympic bronze medalists for Nigeria
- Olympic medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Nigerian Olympic medalist stubs
- Nigerian athletics biography stubs
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