About Luvo Manyonga
Luvo Manyonga (born 8 January 1991) is a South African track and field athlete who specialises in the long jump. He won the 2017 World Championship in London and the 2018 Commonwealth Games title in the Gold Coast, Australia. He was the Olympic silver medallist in 2016 in Rio de Janeiro. Manyonga was world junior champion in 2010, and the African Games champion in 2011. He competed at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics, placing fifth. He was the runner-up at the 2016 African Championships in Athletics. During his career, Manyonga has been served with two doping bans. His second ban was issued in June 2021 when he was given a four-year ban following failure to provide anti-doping officials with sufficient information to complete drug testing. The ban lasted until December 2024. He holds a personal best of 8.65 m (28 ft 4+1⁄2 in), set in 2017 in Potchefstroom. Manyonga had his first international success at the 2009 African Junior Athletics Championships. After qualifying for the final, Manyonga's opened the final with a jump of 8.21 m (26 ft 11 in), which was his best of the competition and brought him fifth place at his first major competition. Around this time, Manyonga became addicted to tik, a local form of crystal meth, which he had first tried in 2011.
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