Eliezer Adjibi
{{Short description|Canadian sprinter}}
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|2000|9|23|df=y}}
| birth_place = Benin Porto-Novo
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| hometown = Ottawa, Ontario{{cite news |title= Canadian Olympic Committee profile |url=https://olympic.ca/team-canada/eliezer-adjibi/ |website= Canadian Olympic Committee |access-date=May 15, 2025}}
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| sport = Athletics
| event = Sprint
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| pb = 100m: 10.02 s (2025)
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{{MedalCompetition|World Relay Championships}}
{{MedalGold | 2025 Guangzhou | Mixed 4 × 100 m relay}}
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Eliezer Adjibi (born 23 September 2000) is a Canadian sprinter.{{cite web|title= Eliezer Adjibi|accessdate=10 May 2025|website=World Athletics|url= https://worldathletics.org/athletes/canada/eliezer-adjibi-14806353}}
Early life
He was born in Benin before living in Ottawa, Canada. He attended Louis-Riel High School and was initially a soccer player but began sprinting as a junior and had encouragement and guidance from Louis Riel Dome coach Lotfi Khaida, who competed for Algeria in the 1988 and 1992 Olympics. In his senior year he won silver and bronze medals in the Under-20 and 100 metres and 200 metres races at the 2018 Canadian Track and Field Championships. He later studied mechanical engineering at the University of Ottawa.{{cite web|url= https://apt613.ca/613-in-paris-sprinter-eliezer-adjibi-finds-his-stride-before-olympic-debut-in-paris/|website=apt613.ca|accessdate=10 May 2025|title= 613 in Paris: Sprinter Eliezer Adjibi finds his stride before Olympic debut in Paris
|first=Kiefer|last=Uuksulainen|date=August 7, 2024}}{{cite web|url= https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/a-cinderella-story-upstart-ottawa-sprinter-gets-his-olympic-moment|website=Ottawa Citizen|accessdate=10 May 2025|title= A Cinderella story: Upstart Ottawa sprinter gets his Olympic moment|first=Ken|last=Warren|date=26 July 2024}}
Career
He is the a member of the C.A.N.I. Club where he is coached by former sprinter Lyndon George.{{cite web|date=11 July 2024|url= https://ottawasportspages.ca/2024/07/11/high-achievers-late-bloomer-eliezer-adjibi-delivers-c-a-n-i-athletics-its-first-olympian/ |website=Ottawa Pages|accessdate=10 May 2025|title= HIGH ACHIEVERS: ‘Late bloomer’ Eliezer Adjibi delivers C.A.N.I. Athletics its first Olympian}} At the Niagara 2022 Canada Summer Games, his 100m time of 10.32 seconds broke the previous Canada Games’ record which has been co-held by three men since 2017. That year, he also lowered his personal best time to 10.23 seconds and placed fourth at the Canadian Athletics Championships.
In June 2024, Adjibi ran a personal best 10.04 seconds for the 100 metres (+2.00 m/s). At the same event he also ran a wind-assisted 9.98 seconds.{{cite web|url=https://worldathletics.org/competition/calendar-results/results/7204989?eventId=10229630|website=World Athletics|accessdate=10 May 2025|title=Royal City Inferno Track and Field Festival|date=4 June 2024}} Later that month, he claimed second place in the 100 metres at the 2024 Canadian Athletics Championships in a time of 10.23 seconds, three one-hundredths of a second off the winning time posted by Olympic medallist Andre De Grasse. Subsequently, he was named as part of the Canadian relay pool for the 2024 Olympic Games.
He was named in the Canadian team for the 2025 World Athletics Relays in China, in May 2025.{{cite web|url= https://athletics.ca/blog/2025/04/16/2025-world-relays-team-ready-to-run/|website=Athletics.ca|accessdate=10 May 2025|date= 16 Apr 2025|title=
2025 WORLD RELAYS TEAM READY TO RUN}} He ran the anchor leg of the mixed 4 x 100 metres relay, which made its debut as an event at the championships, as Canada won their heat and clinched their place in the final with the fastest time.{{cite web|url=https://worldathletics.org/competitions/world-athletics-relays/guangzhou25/news/report/guangzhou-25-report-4x100m-heats|website=World Athletics|accessdate=10 May 2025|title= Japan, South Africa and Spain lead 4x100m heats, mixed relay makes dramatic debut in Guangzhou|date=10 May 2025}}{{cite web|url= https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6755842|website=cbc.ca|accessdate=10 May 2025|title= Canada's mixed relay team qualifies for the World Relays finals|date=10 May 2025}} In the final, he ran as the Canadian team won the gold medal in the event.{{cite web|url=https://worldathletics.org/competition/calendar-results/results/7203345?eventId=10230439|website=World Athletics|accessdate=11 May 2025|date=11 May 2025|title= World Athletics Relays}}{{cite web|url= https://worldathletics.org/competitions/world-athletics-relays/guangzhou25/news/report/guangzhou-25-report-4x100m-finals|website=World Athletics|accessdate=11 May 2025|title= Canada claims inaugural World Relays mixed 4x100m crown in Guangzhou|date=11 May 2025}} On June 22 2025 at the Bob Vigars Classic in London, Ontario, he lowered his personal best for the 100 metres when he ran a wind legal 10.02 seconds (+1.5m/s).{{Cite web |title=Menn 100m Elite Final - Bob Vigars Classic|date=22 June 2025 |url=https://live.windsortiming.com/meets/54538/events/individual/2072093 |access-date=2025-06-22}}
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Category:Track and field athletes from Ottawa
Category:Canadian male sprinters
Category:Beninese male sprinters
Category:Beninese emigrants to Canada
Category:Canadian people of Beninese descent
Category:Black Canadian female track and field athletes