Andréa Dirabou Kouassi, captain of the nationwide rugby workforce.
In Côte d’Ivoire, sport is now mixed with girls. The best disciplines abound with males, however it’s the girls who glean probably the most laurels, typically. There are numerous of those sportswomen seen with a nasty eye within the latest previous due to sure sensitivities however who’re at this time the usual bearers of Ivorian sport in all its elements.
Ta Lou, the queen of the slopes
If we have now to pause on the 2023 season of Ta Lou Marie-Josée, all distant controls will cease on June 15, 2023, in the course of the Diamond League stage in Oslo, Norway. That day, the 34-year-old Ivorian improved the world file for the yr with a time of 10s75, one second lower than the American Sha’Carri Richardson (10s 76). The icing on the cake, this efficiency rewarded all of the efforts of the 2017 double world vice-champion in 100 and 200m.
In 2022, she had achieved an identical feat by changing into the brand new African file holder within the 100m with a time of 10s 72. An unprecedented efficiency then achieved on the Monaco assembly, within the Diamond League, and which made her the quickest lady within the historical past of Africa within the 100m. A chrono that she reissued a number of weeks in the past. Right this moment, in Côte d’Ivoire, it’s clear that the dash now not bears the traits of the late Gabriel Tiacoh or Murielle Ahouré. The brand new face of the queen self-discipline of Ivorian athletics is Ta Lou Marie-Josée who has 10 profession victories within the Diamond League together with this Sunday afternoon in London.
Gbagbi Ruth, champion and ambassador
In 2023, there are solely two bronze medals gleaned by Ruth Marie-Christelle Gbagbi. In February 2023, she was a bronze medalist in -67 kg in Cairo, Egypt in the course of the President’s Cup Africa. She was additionally a bronze medalist in beneath 67 kg on the 2023 Worlds in Baku, Azerbaijan. However the lifetime of this immense champion can’t be summed up by these two virtually insignificant charms in her palmares, so long as the arm, which has two traces of world champion (2017, 2021) and 6 of African championships (2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2021, 2022).
Gbagbi is the image of Ivorian girls’s sport. Furthermore, she was named in 2022 ambassador of girls’s sport in Côte d’Ivoire. A distinction which has been added to that of the Unesco Chair which has made her an envoy of tradition and peace. She can be since January 2023 the brand new president of the union of athletes of the African union of taekwondo.
Andrea Dirabou, the nice rugby participant
She was not predestined to turn out to be the figurehead of Ivorian girls’s rugby however Andrea Dirabou gave himself the means to achieve the heights in a really quick time. In 2008, whereas she was on the College of Lille for her research in Economics, she was requested to decide on a sports activities self-discipline. She opted for rugby and began at Stade Villeneuvois. This coaching helps her develop as an athlete and a lady. In return, she takes the membership from the 2nd to the primary division together with her teammates.
Then, the sirens of the homeland ship him to the nationwide workforce of Côte d’Ivoire rugby union. In a short time, her bodily and psychological energy in addition to her qualities as a frontrunner naturally made her the captain. Subsequent October, she is going to take part in her third African Cup. It is a objective near her coronary heart, like combating for extra girls to come back into the world of oval ball. “Many outline or see rugby as a really bodily sport and subsequently for males. I wish to combat for extra girls to hitch us. On this regard, I’ve an occasion which is already in its second version and which is known as “All in rugby”. We expect 90 younger ladies to be launched to the observe of ovality. This enables us to additionally help sure associations that combat in opposition to violence in opposition to girls”, mentioned the captain of the Ivorian nationwide workforce in a short interview with Sport Information Africa.
Youin-Irié Lou-Bakayoko, the shock trio in wrestle
Côte d’Ivoire could be proud to have all the time returned, over the previous two years, from worldwide wrestling competitions with no less than three charms. She owes these exploits to a few wrestlers who’re consistently gaining energy: Amy Youin, Irié Lou Fabiola and Bakayoko Céline. Throughout the Islamic Solidarity Video games in Olympic wrestling in September 2022 in Konya, Turkey, Amy Youin received silver in -76 kg.
Throughout the African Olympic wrestling championship which came about from Might 15 to twenty, 2023 in Hammamet in Tunisia, the delegation returned with a silver medal for Bakayoko Céline in – 53 kg and a bronze medal for Irié Lou in -72 kg. The identical for the primary African beach-wrestling championship which came about instantly after, on Might 21, 2023, nonetheless in Hammamet. Côte d’Ivoire received a gold medal with Bakayoko in – 60 kg and a silver with Youin in +70 kg. The three women shone in groups on the 2nd African Seaside Video games in Tunisia from June 25 to 29, 2023 with a silver medal.
“Concerning the ninth Francophonie Video games in Kinshasa within the DRC, we have now 5 athletes concerned, together with 4 ladies. It exhibits how a lot hope we place for medals within the ladies. The actual curiosity that we grant to ladies can be justified by the truth that they’ve all the time recognized methods to do properly throughout main sporting occasions each on the continent and outdoors the continent. As well as, of the 4 ladies current on the Kinshasa Video games, three specifically Youin Amy, Yapi N’Dé and Soro Tiemongo had obtained on the earlier version in Abidjan in 2017 respectively 1 gold medal and a pair of bronze medals in particular person then 1 silver medal by team-girls. We’re satisfied that on the Kinshasa Video games, they may have the ability to repeat the feat”, Allou Honoré, President of the Ivorian Wrestling Federation, instructed SNA on July 22, 2023.
Dsubscribe Zoulehia, so shut so removed from the Olympics
A resident of the Judo Membership Pays de Château Gontier in France, Dsubscription Abzetta Zoulehia is probably the most distinguished feminine athlete in her self-discipline. She has participated in 4 main worldwide competitions this season. On the Grand Slam in Paris, she got here residence empty-handed. Then again, it shone in Luanda (Angola), in Niamey (Niger) and in the course of the Abidjan Open (Ivory Coast).
In April 2023, in Angola, she adorned herself with gold within the -57 kg class. The Ivorian shooter at each Olympiads obtained the identical steel at residence in the course of the Abidjan Open in June 2023. Within the course of, in Niger, nonetheless in June 2023, she obtained a silver medal.
“Regardless of all his good outcomes, Dsubscribe will not be positive of being on the Paris Olympics. His compatriot Koffi Kremé, on the boys’s facet, is in pole place to take Côte d’Ivoire’s solely place. If Kremé takes her final qualifying factors in a continental competitors, it will likely be over for her. If he qualifies by way of a contest outdoors the Continent then Dsubscribe can hope to be in Paris subsequent yr”, explains a member of the communication division of the Ivorian Judo Federation. Not sufficient to discourage one of the best present Ivorian judoka.
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