medaltemplates article_title birth_date
men 's athletics fidelis ndyabagye
 february 24 , 1950
fidelis ndyabagye

fidelis ndyabagye -lrb- born february 24 , 1950 -rrb- is a ugandan athlete .
he represented uganda at the 1980 olympics in the long jump .
he also competed at the 1978 all-africa games where he won the silver medal in the long jump and set the still current ugandan national record at 7.75 meters .
after the olympics he attended the university of new mexico .
he won the western athletic conference 1982 , 1984 and 1985 indoor championships and the 1985 outdoor championships .
by the time of his 1985 championship , he was 35 years old .
how he managed to pass the strict ncaa eligibility requirements at that age is not explained .
his winning jump of at his home stadium in albuquerque would not only be a new national record , but a masters m35 world record .
the uganda athletics federation does not list the mark as a record , the wac and university show the mark .
the masters record would be surpassed a year later by yugoslavian nenad stekić , who only a few years earlier had held the distinction of being the second best long jumper in history .
