Abdoulrazak Issoufou Alfaga

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Abdoulrazak Issoufou Alfaga (2016)

Personal information
Nickname (s): Daba junior
Nationality: NigerNiger Niger
Society: CHO Niamey, BSV Friedrichshafen
Birthday: December 26, 1994
Size: 207 cm
Weight: 98 kg
Medals

Abdoulrazak Issoufou Alfaga (born December 26, 1994 ; spelling of the first name also Abdoul Razak ) is a Nigerien taekwondo fighter in the top heavyweight division .

Career

Abdoulrazak Issoufou Alfaga first came into contact with Taekwondo when he and his brothers visited a cousin who was fighting Taekwondo in 2001. The cousin died as a result of a battle injury, whereupon Issoufou Alfaga's father forbade his children to play. Three years later, Issoufou Alfaga was living with an uncle in neighboring Togo on the border with Benin . He enrolled in a Taekwondo club in Benin. There he won a local championship but turned down an offer to join the Benin national team. In 2009 he returned to Niger.

He became a member of the CHO association in Niamey and was nicknamed Daba Junior after his model Daba Modibo Keïta . Issoufou Alfaga subsequently became a Nigerian Taekwondo master several times. In December 2011 he took part in an international tournament for the first time in Ouagadougou . The following year he fought at the Taekwondo Youth World Championships 2012 in Sharm el-Sheikh . Issoufou Alfaga won silver at the Coupe du monde francophone de Taekwondo 2012 in Abidjan and gold at the Abuja Open 2013 in Abuja . The 2013 Taekwondo World Championships in Puebla ended without a podium for him. For this he won silver at the Taekwondo African Championships 2014 in Tunis and gold at the Coupe du monde francophone de Taekwondo 2014 in Dakar . He also returned from the 2015 US Open in Orlando with a gold medal . Issoufou Alfaga then followed the advice of his association to no longer take part in competitions in his home country Niger, but to concentrate exclusively on international tournaments.

At the 2015 Taekwondo World Championships in Chelyabinsk , he was eliminated in sixteenth place and at the 2015 Russian Grand Prix right after his first fight. The 2015 African Games in Brazzaville, however, earned him the gold medal. In order to perfect his skills, Issoufou Alfaga began several months of training at the Taekwondo Competence Center in Friedrichshafen in Germany . He and the Comité Olympique et Sportif National du Niger struggled to raise the cost of 95,000 euros. He now fought for the club BSV Friedrichshafen, for which he won gold at the Austrian Open 2015 in Innsbruck and silver at the Croatia Open 2015 in Zagreb .

Abdoulrazak Issoufou Alfaga (right) with the silver medal at the 2016 Olympic Summer Games

Abdoulrazak Issoufou Alfaga qualified in February 2016 with a silver medal in the Africa qualification in Agadir for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro . His trainer for the games was the German Markus Kohlöffel from the Taekwondo Competence Center in Friedrichshafen. Issoufou Alfaga previously won gold at the Luxor Open 2016 in Luxor and gold at the Belgian Open 2016 in Lommel . He was the flag bearer of Niger at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in the Estádio do Maracanã . Issoufou Alfaga was ultimately only defeated by Radik İsayev from Azerbaijan and won silver in the weight class over 80 kg. In the Olympic history of Niger , it is the first silver medal and the second medal ever after boxer Issaka Daboré won bronze at the 1972 Summer Olympics . Issoufou Alfaga was awarded the Officer 's Cross of the Niger Order of Merit on his return to Niger after the Olympic Games .

At the 2017 World Championships in Muju , he won the title after beating Mahama Cho in the final .

Web links

Commons : Abdoulrazak Issoufou Alfaga  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Oumarou Moussa: Taekwondo: Une pépite nommée Issoufou Alfaga Abdoul Razak. In: Niger Diaspora. February 18, 2016, accessed August 26, 2016 (French).
  2. ↑ a b Taekwondo: le Nigerien Issoufou Alfaga Abdoulrazak se bat pour les JO. (No longer available online.) In: Mali-Web. April 8, 2016, archived from the original on August 25, 2016 ; Retrieved August 26, 2016 (French).
  3. ↑ a b c Mathieu Olivier: JO 2016: Issoufou Alfaga Abdoulrazak, l'espoir du Niger en taekwondo. In: Jeune Afrique . August 19, 2016, accessed August 26, 2016 (French).
  4. ↑ a b c Issoufou Alfaga, Abdoulrazak. In: TaekwondoData . Retrieved August 26, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Razak Alfaga wins the Austrian Open. Taekwondo Competence Center Friedrichshafen, May 31, 2015, accessed on August 26, 2016 .
  6. ↑ 21. Croatia Open 2015. Competition results. (PDF) In: Croatia Open. Retrieved August 26, 2016 .
  7. ↑ JO 2016 / taekwondo: Issoufou Alfaga Abdoulrazak, la plus belle médaille du Niger. In: Le Sahel . August 2016, accessed August 26, 2016 (French).
  8. ↑ Joe Marques: Flag bearers of all nations at the opening ceremony for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. In: Rio2016.com. August 5, 2016, accessed on August 26, 2016 .
  9. ^ Abdoulrazak Issoufou Alfaga. In: Rio2016.com. Retrieved August 26, 2016 .
  10. ↑ Africa emerges as new taekwondo force but Korea reclaim top spot. In: Rio2016.com. August 21, 2016, archived from the original on August 26, 2016 ; accessed on August 26, 2016 .
  11. ^ Niger: le retour triomphal d'Issoufou Abdoulrazak à Niamey. In: RFI Afrique. August 26, 2016, accessed August 26, 2016 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Issoufou Alfaga, Abdoulrazak
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Issoufou Alfaga, Abdoul Razak
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nigerien Taekwondoin
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1994