Issaka Daboré

Issaka Daboré
Data
Birth Name	Issaka Daboré
Weight class	Welterweight
nationality	Niger
birthday	1940
place of birth	Dingazi Banda

Issaka Daboré (* 1940 in Dingazi Banda ) is a former Nigerien boxer. He is the first athlete in his country to take part in the Olympic Games and was the first Nigerien medalist.

Life

Issaka Daboré began his boxing career by his own account in April 1958. He won his first bronze medal in 1961 at friendlies of the Francophonie in Abidjan , his first gold medal in 1963 in Dakar . In the same year he married. One of his children is the boxer Boubacar Issaka Daboré .

In 1964 - nine months after the Comité National Olympique et Sportif Nigérien was accepted into the International Olympic Committee - Daboré took part in the Tokyo Summer Olympics as a one-man team . At the Olympic premiere of his country, he reached the quarter-finals in welterweight with knockout victories against Tshun-Fu Hong from Taipei, China, and Hans-Erik Pedersen from Denmark , but lost to the Finnish Pertti Purhonen with a 2: 3 judge's vote . Four years later at the Summer Olympics in Mexico City , he won the light welterweight division 5-0 against José Isaac Marín from Costa Rica , but lost 4-1 in the round of 16 against Yevgeny Frolov from the Soviet Union .

Daboré achieved the greatest success of his career at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich , where he only lost 5-0 to Bulgarian Angel Angelow in the semi- finals and won the first and only Olympic medal for his country with the bronze medal. Before that he had beaten Odartey Lawson from Ghana (knockout), Tai Shik Park from South Korea (knockout) and Kyoji Shinohara from Japan (3-2).

The then Nigerien President Hamani Diori gave him a house in the capital Niamey , where he has lived with his family ever since.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Box: Issaka Daboré, ancien médaillé nigérien. "Qui peut imaginer que je mène une vie misérable?" ( Memento from April 11, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )