Ngonidzashe Makusha
| Personal information | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nationality |
 Zimbabwe
|
|||||||||||||||
| Born |
11 March 1987 Mandedza, Zimbabwe |
|||||||||||||||
| Sport | ||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Track and field | |||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | Sprints, long jump | |||||||||||||||
| College team | Florida State Seminoles | |||||||||||||||
| Achievements and titles | ||||||||||||||||
| Personal best(s) |
100 m: 9.89 NR Long jump: 8.40 m NR |
|||||||||||||||
|
Medal record
|
||||||||||||||||
Ngonidzashe Makusha (born 11 March 1987) is a Zimbabwean sprinter and long jumper. He is the national record holder over 100 m and Long Jump for Zimbabwe with 9.89 s (+1.3 m/s) and 8.40 m (0.0 m/s) respectively. Both performances achieved during the 2011 NCAA Division I Championships in Des Moines, Iowa where he completed the 100 m long jump double. Following the 2 gold medals victory, Makusha has becomes one of the only four athletes to win the double (100 m & Long Jump) at the NCAA championships. The three others are DeHart Hubbard (1925), Jesse Owens (1935 & 1936), and Carl Lewis (1981).
In 2011, Makusha was named the men's winner of The Bowerman which is awarded to the top collegiate track & field athlete of the year.
He started his career in Seke, Mandedza high School, Zimbabwe .In July 2006 in Windhoek, Makusha achieved decent results in several events. In addition to 7.87 metres in the long jump, he jumped 14.90 metres in the triple jump, ran the 100 metres in 10.64 seconds and the 200 metres in 21.57 seconds. The next month he entered in both long jump and the 100 metres at the 2006 World Junior Championships. In the 100 metres, he reached the semi-final, where he was knocked out with a time of 10.84 seconds. He reached the final in the long jump event, but finished twelfth and last. The next year he competed at the 2007 All-Africa Games, where he won a bronze medal in the 4 x 100 metres relay, together with his teammates Gabriel Mvumvure, Brian Dzingai and Lewis Banda. He also competed in long jump and 100 metres, achieving 7.69 metres and 10.52 seconds in the two events.
...
Wikipedia