Daba modibo keita biography
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Daba Modibo KEITA
Daba Modibo Keita, double world Champion in History will record that Daba Modibo Keita is the first African (and the only one to this day) to have been the World Champion of the heavy in taekwondo.
Daba has kept his trophy by beating in the final the South Korean, Yun Bae Nam, on October 14, during the 19th edition of the World Championships of the discipline in Copenhagen in Denmark.
Daba Modibo Keita, World ChampiongoogleBorn in Abidjan (5 April ), Daba Modibo has begun his sports career every early. It fryst vatten in that the Malian public discovers the young fighter who is illustrated in the West African Championship in Bamako bygd winning silver medals. Two years later in Accra, Daba Modibo Keita won the bronze medal West-African championship before becoming the champion of Mali in and then in
His career fryst vatten accelerating, and Daba Modibo Keita won three gold medals in the Open in Paris, the International Open Nantes and the Tournament of Picardie.
The champion
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Daba Modibo Keïta
Malian taekwondo practitioner
Daba Modibo Keïta (born 5 April ) is a Maliantaekwondo athlete. Keïta has competed in international competitions since , and in became the heavyweight (+84&#;kg) division World Taekwondo Champion in Beijing, and competed in both the and Summer Olympics in the +80&#;kg class.
Personal life
[edit]Keïta was born in Abidjan (Côte d'Ivoire) to Malian parents, and was named for the first President of Mali, Modibo Keita. He was forced to flee the country with his family in during the wave of xenophobia which preceded the Ivorian Civil War. Settling in Mali, Keïta had little funding for training, but received an IOC Olympic Solidarity Scholarship to pay for his training with Ivorian fighter Patrice Remarck in the United States.[1] With coach Jorge F. Ramos, finances forced Keïta to stay with friends in Beijing during the world championship and train in a hotel courtyard. Keïta is managed by his older brother, Badra, and ha
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