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Present at the 2019 African Games in Morocco, these five athletes including Ivorian Marie-Josée Ta Lou and Nigerian Abdoulrazak Issoufou Alfaga all have in mind the next Olympic Games taking place in Tokyo in Japan next summer. In Morocco, they all won gold in their discipline.
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Marie-Josée Ta Lou left Morocco with two medals around her neck (gold on the 100m and bronze on the 200m). The Ivorian sprinter, whose goal is to get on the first step of a world competition, will be at the next World Athletics Championships in Doha, Qatar (September 27 to October 6). In Tokyo, the Ivorian should live her second Olympics after Rio in 2016 where she finished twice at the foot of the podium in the 100m and 200m. His personal best is 10''85 in 2018 in Qatar at the first stage of the Diamond League. Marie-Josée Ta Lou will still have to compete with Jamaican Elaine Thompson, in gold in Rio (doubled 100m / 200m), who became the second woman in history to achieve this feat, after the American Florence Griffith-Joyner in 1988 in Seoul.
Cheick Cissé, the hope of Ivorian taekwondo
In 2016 in Rio, it was the revelation of taekwondo . Ivory Coast's Cheick Cissé won Côte d'Ivoire's first ever gold medal in Olympic history. Three years later, the national hero is still performing and has offered gold in Rabat (less than 80 kg). Number 1 in its category, Cheick Cissé aims to double in Tokyo in one year. The taekwondoist born in Bouaké is also the first Ivorian to have won a gold medal in taekwondo at a Grand Prix in Moscow in 2015.
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Another revelation in taekwondo: the Nigerian Abdoulrazak Issoufou Alfaga . The man who won the silver medal in Rio in 2016 is still on the track. In Brazil, he became the second Nigerian athlete to win an Olympic medal after the bronze medal of boxer Issaka Dabore in 1972 in Munich. " I'm disappointed, I promised gold , it's like that. The fight continues until Tokyo 2020, "he told RFI at the time. More than ever, Abdoulrazak Issoufou Alfaga, world champion in 2017 , remains a gold medal hope for Niger in a year in Japan. In Rabat, Rio's standard bearer won gold.
Hugues Fabrice Zango, the Burkinabè who has progressed enormously
Inès Boubakri is waiting for his time. Hegemony on the African continent, the Tunisian fencer has already won 13 titles at the African Championships. In Rabat, she dominated all her opponents before finishing once again on the highest step of the podium, as at the African Games in Brazzaville in 2015. Today, Inès Boubakri is aiming for Olympic or world gold to finish a career in style. already busy. Nobody forgot his bronze medal in Rio, which made him part of the history of Tunisian and African fencing.
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Hugues Fabrice Zango , a Burkinabe athlete and triple jump specialist, broke the African outdoor record at the French Championships last July. Zango , 26, jumped to 17.50m, 13 centimeters better than the previous continental record holder, who was held by Morocco's Tarik Bouguetaïb (17.37m on July 14, 2007). Gold medalist at the Games of La Francophonie in Abidjan on July 24, 2017 with a jump of 16.92m, the 26-year-old Burkinabe athlete has only been making progress since then. In Rabat, announced as a favorite of the event, the athlete has logically imposed (16.88m).
Hugues Fabrice Zango competed at the Olympic Games in Rio, finished 6th at the World Indoor Championships in March 2018 in Birmingham, and in that same year won Nigeria's first African title. In Doha, for the World Championships, Zango intends to put his name in the history of world athletics. Before heading to the Tokyo Games.