Ghana's Ignisius Gaisah snatched the gold medal at the dearth at the 15th Africa senior athletics championships in Mauritius.

Gaisah leapt to a massive distance of 8.51m at the final round to wrestle the medal from South Africa's Godfrey Khotso Mokoena who had led up to that point with 8.45m. Algeria's Issam Nima was third with 8.37m.

The reigning World Indoor and Commonwealth Games Long Jump champion, could have broken the African record, bar an excessive following wind of +3.7 metres per second.

The current African record in the event, set in 1997 by Senegalese Cheikh Toure, stands at 8.46m.