Boureima Kimba

Boureima Kimba
nation	Niger
birthday	1968
date of death	April 21, 2013
Place of death	Niamey ,  Niger
Career
discipline	100-meter run, 200-meter run
Best performance	10.87 seconds in the 100-meter run, 21.67 seconds in the 200-meter run
last change: June 9, 2017

Boureima Kimba (* 1968 ; † April 21, 2013 in Niamey ) was a Nigerien sprinter .

Career

Boureima Kimba set his personal best in 1989, with 10.87 seconds in the 100-meter run and 21.67 seconds in the 200-meter run . He was a Nigerien champion in both disciplines.

Kimba took part in the Olympic Games twice. At the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona , he competed in the men's 200-meter run and was eliminated in the heats with a time of 22.49 seconds. At the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta , he took part in the men's 100-meter run . Here, too, he was eliminated in the heats, his time was 11.24 seconds.

He later became a coach and worked as a Nigerien national coach. Because of his work with young athletes, he was nicknamed "Teacher". Kimba was also Deputy Secretary General of the Association des Anciens Athlètes du Niger , the association of former Nigerian athletes.

He died in an accident.

Web links

• Boureima Kimba in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Boureima Kimba in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original ), accessed on June 9, 2017.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Oumarou Moussa: Activités de l'Association des Anciens Athlètes du Niger: Promouvoir la pratique de l'athlétisme. (No longer available online.) In: Niger Express. Formerly in the original ; Retrieved June 9, 2017 (French).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.