Tosin Oke
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| Nationality | Nigerian/British | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 1 October 1980 London, England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10+1⁄2 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 77 kg (170 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Triple jump | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Cambridge Harriers / Mizuno | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Highest world ranking | 7th | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Personal best | 17.23m | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Oluwatosin Bamidele Oke ⓘ(born 1 October 1980) is a British-Nigerian former track and field athlete, who competed in the triple jump. Born a dual national, he initially competed for Great Britain. He set the current UK junior indoor record and was 1 cm shy of the outdoor junior record. He was the 1999 European Athletics Junior Championships Champion, and came 5th at the 2002 Commonwealth Games. After multiple indoor and outdoor UK titles, he later switched to compete for Nigeria. Since competing for Nigeria he has won back-to-back African Championships in Athletics titles and the Commonwealth Games championship and is the current All-Africa Games Champion. At the 2012 Summer Olympics Oke finished seventh in the triple jump final, the best Nigerian result of the Games.