{"id":90090,"date":"2023-07-23T16:53:20","date_gmt":"2023-07-23T16:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africannewspaper.net\/2023\/07\/23\/in-ivory-coast-women-have-relegated-men-to-second-place-other-sports-sport-news-africa\/"},"modified":"2023-07-23T16:53:22","modified_gmt":"2023-07-23T16:53:22","slug":"in-ivory-coast-women-have-relegated-men-to-second-place-other-sports-sport-news-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africannewspaper.net\/2023\/07\/23\/in-ivory-coast-women-have-relegated-men-to-second-place-other-sports-sport-news-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"In Ivory Coast, women have relegated men to second place – Other sports – Sport News Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"
Andr\u00e9a Dirabou Kouassi, captain of the nationwide rugby workforce.<\/p>\n
In C\u00f4te 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.<\/p>\n
If we have now to pause on the 2023 season of Ta Lou Marie-Jos\u00e9e, 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.<\/p>\n
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 C\u00f4te d’Ivoire, it’s clear that the dash now not bears the traits of the late Gabriel Tiacoh or Murielle Ahour\u00e9. The brand new face of the queen self-discipline of Ivorian athletics is Ta Lou Marie-Jos\u00e9e who has 10 profession victories within the Diamond League together with this Sunday afternoon in London.<\/p>\n
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).<\/p>\n
Gbagbi is the image of Ivorian girls’s sport. Furthermore, she was named in 2022 ambassador of girls’s sport in C\u00f4te 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.<\/p>\n