Cheick Sallah Cisse

Cheick Sallah Cisse

Personal information

Nationality:

Ivory Coast

Society:

INEKA Taekwondo

Birthday:

September 19, 1993

Place of birth:

Bouaké

Size:

189 cm

Medals

Olympic games
gold	Rio de Janeiro 2016	up to 80 kg
Africa Games
gold	Brazzaville 2015	up to 80 kg
African Championships
bronze	Tunis 2014	up to 80 kg
gold	Port Said 2016	up to 80 kg

Cheick Sallah Cissé (born September 19, 1993 in Bouaké ) is an Ivorian Taekwondoin . He starts in the weight class up to 80 kilograms and is Olympic champion in this .

Career

Cissé won his first international medal with bronze at the 2014 African Championships in Tunis . At the 2015 World Championships , he was eliminated in the round of 16 after a 3: 4 defeat by Steven Lopez . In the same year he won the gold medal at the Africa Games in Brazzaville , in the final he defeated Oussama Oueslati with 12:10. In 2016 he became the African champion for the first time in Port Said .

Due to his world ranking position, Cissé was qualified for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro . After victories over Piotr Paziński (8: 2), Tahir Güleç (7: 1) and Oussama Oueslati (7: 6), he met Lutalo Muhammad in the final . With a head hit in the last second, Cissé turned a 4: 6 deficit into an 8: 6 and became Olympic champion. He was the first Ivorian athlete to win an Olympic gold medal.

Web links

Cheick Sallah Cissé on the TaekwondoData .com website

Individual evidence

↑ Paulo Prada: Cisse's last-second kick delivers gold for Ivory Coast. In: reuters.com. Reuters , August 20, 2016, accessed July 20, 2017 .

personal data
SURNAME	Cisse, Cheick Sallah
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Ivorian Taekwondoin
DATE OF BIRTH	September 19, 1993
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bouaké , Ivory Coast

[1] Paulo Prada: Cisse's last-second kick delivers gold for Ivory Coast. In: reuters.com. Reuters , August 20, 2016, accessed July 20, 2017 .