"Africa to win an Olympic gold medal, doing so over 10,000 meters at Barcelona. Abebe Bikila, the first Olympic champion representing an African nation, won the Olympic marathon in 1960 and 1964, setting world records both times. He is well-known to this day for winning the 1960 marathon in Rome while running barefoot. Miruts Yifter, the first in a tradition of Ethiopians known for their brilliant finishing speed, won gold at 5,000 and 10,000 meters at the Moscow Olympics. At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Kenenisa Bekele became the second man to achieve this feat, while fellow Ethiopian Tirunesh Dibaba became"
"He was then sponsored by Adidas. He ran the next Olympics; he carried the fucking shoes"". Abebe did not carry his shoes but wore them; he was not sponsored by Adidas but was perhaps secretly sponsored by Puma. Abebe Bikila Abebe Bikila (; August 7, 1932 – October 25, 1973) was an Ethiopian marathon runner. A double Olympic marathon champion, he won the first at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome while running barefoot, setting a world record. He is Africa's first world record breaking athlete in any sport and the first sub-Saharan African Olympic gold medallist. At the 1964"
"support of the Declaration. The Second All-African Peoples' Conference, held from 25–31 January, called for Africa's complete independence and the establishment of an African bank. In the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Ethiopian runner Abebe Bikila won the marathon and became the first Black African to receive an Olympic Gold Medal. His achievement intensified African pride and global focus on the continent. The Year of Africa altered the symbolic status of Africans worldwide, by having the world recognize the existence of African nations as a force to be reckoned with on the international arena. It marked the beginning of a"
"from the Olympic Games. The country was readmitted in 1980 as Zimbabwe. Cyprian Tseriwa Cyprian Tseriwa (born January 16, 1937) was the first Olympic athlete of African descent for the country Zimbabwe, running in the 1960 Olympics in Rome in both the 5000m and the 10000m races. He ran under the flag of Southern Rhodesia, a colony of Great Britain. His 5000 metres time at the Rome Olympics was 15:02 and his 10000 metres time was 30.47. Cyprian was from Mashonaland East. After his Olympic appearance in 1960, he was hired to be an athletic instructor for the Wankie Collery."
"Senegal at the Olympics Senegal has sent athletes to all Summer Olympic Games held since 1964. Unlike most surrounding nations, Senegal has never missed any Summer Olympics since its independence. Only once has the country won an Olympic medal: Amadou Dia Ba, who won a silver medal in the men's 400 metre hurdles in 1988. However, Abdoulaye Seye, representing France, won a bronze medal in the 200 metres in 1960, just two months after the short lived Mali Federation gained independence and a few days after Senegal seceded from the federation. Senegal is among the small group of tropical countries"
"Cyprian Tseriwa Cyprian Tseriwa (born January 16, 1937) was the first Olympic athlete of African descent for the country Zimbabwe, running in the 1960 Olympics in Rome in both the 5000m and the 10000m races. He ran under the flag of Southern Rhodesia, a colony of Great Britain. His 5000 metres time at the Rome Olympics was 15:02 and his 10000 metres time was 30.47. Cyprian was from Mashonaland East. After his Olympic appearance in 1960, he was hired to be an athletic instructor for the Wankie Collery. There he coached other locally well known Zimbabwean athletes. It is unknown"
"by his political actions following his feats. During his time at university, Ifeajuna met his wife Rose in 1955. Four years later the pair married and went on to have two sons. Emmanuel Ifeajuna Emmanuel Arinze Ifeajuna (1935 – 25 September 1967) was a Nigerian army major and high jumper who played a principal role in the January 15, 1966 military coup. He was the first Black African to win a gold medal at an international sports event when he won at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games. His winning mark and personal best of 6 ft 8 in"
"years. South Africa hosted the 2010 FIFA World Cup, a first for a Sub-Saharan country. In 2010, Cameroon played in the World Cup for the sixth time, which is the current record for a Sub-Saharan team. In 1996 Nigeria won the Olympic gold for football. In 2000 Cameroon maintained the continent's supremacy by winning the title too. Momentous achievements for Sub-Saharan African football. Famous Sub-Saharan football stars include Abedi Pele, Emmanuel Adebayor, George Weah, Michael Essien, Didier Drogba, Roger Milla, Nwankwo Kanu, Jay-Jay Okocha, Bruce Grobbelaar, Samuel Eto'o, Kolo Touré, Yaya Touré, Sadio Mané and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang. The most talented"
"Zander, who claimed gold in 50.5s, her time of 1:10.8 was well ahead of Argentinian swimmer Galan's 1:38.6, enabling her to claim silver. Rhodesia at the 1960 Summer Paralympics Rhodesia competed at the inaugural Summer Paralympic Games in 1960 in Rome. It was the only African country to take part. Rhodesia sent two competitors to the games, one of whom was Margaret Harriman, who competed in archery and swimming. Harriman won a total of five medals, placing her country 11th out of 17 on the medal table. She took gold in both the archery events she participated in, and won"
"be allowed to represent Senegal. Guèye was the first black African to compete at the Winter Games; South Africa became the first African nation to compete at a Winter Games, in 1960, but with an all-white team under apartheid. The sole Senegalese athlete at the Games, Lamine Guèye, competed in the men's downhill and giant slalom. He compared arriving at the athletes village to being a ""kid in Disneyland"", and said that he was welcomed by everyone at the Games. He entered the stadium during the Parade of Nations in the opening ceremony as the Senegalese flag bearer sandwiched between"
"Clement Quartey Clement Isaac ""Ike"" Quartey is a former Ghanaian boxer and Ghana's first Olympic medalist. He won the silver medal in the men's Light Welterweight (63.5 kg) category at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy. Better known as ""Isaac"" or ""Ike"", he was born April 12, 1938 in Accra, Ghana. Clement is an older brother of former welterweight champion Ike Quartey. He not only won a medal at the Olympics, but he also won a gold medal at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games held in Perth, Australia.(born April 12, 1938 in Accra) Olympic games results 1960"
"He didn't compete in the 1960 Summer Olympics, when Abebe Bikila became the first Ethiopian to win a gold medal. Degaga claimed his absence was due to the government's desire to send him on a peacekeeping mission to the Congo during the Congo Crisis. According to him, in the government's ensuing conflict with the Ethiopian Olympic Committee, who wanted him to compete, he didn't get sent to either event. However, athlete Said Moussa Osman, who represented Ethiopia in the 800 m at the 1960 Olympics, stated that Degaga lost at the trials and didn't make it on the team. Beginning"
"1960 Summer Olympics medal table The 1960 Summer Olympics medal table is a list of National Olympic Committees ranked by the number of medals won during the 1960 Summer Olympics, held in Rome, Italy from August 25 to September 11, 1960. A total of 5,338 athletes from 83 countries participated in these Games, competing in 150 events in 17 sports. The bronze medal Iraq's Abdul Wahid Aziz won in men's lightweight weightlifting is the only Olympic medal (Summer or Winter) Iraq has ever won, currently the longest drought for any country who has won at least one Olympic medal. Athletes"
"Rhadi Ben Abdesselam Rhadi Ben Abdesselam (; 28 February 1929 – 4 October 2000) was a Moroccan long-distance runner. He competed at the 1960 Olympics in the marathon and 10,000 meters events. He also ran in the International Cross Country Championships in 1958–1963. In March 1960, he and Belgium's Gaston Roelants quickly broke away from the field, and he became the first African athlete to win the individual gold medal in that event, defeating Roelants by 40 yards. On September 8, 1960, he finished in 14th place in the finals-only 10,000 meters, in 29:32.0, almost a minute behind the winner,"
"(as a Light welterweight) Clement Quartey Clement Isaac ""Ike"" Quartey is a former Ghanaian boxer and Ghana's first Olympic medalist. He won the silver medal in the men's Light Welterweight (63.5 kg) category at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy. Better known as ""Isaac"" or ""Ike"", he was born April 12, 1938 in Accra, Ghana. Clement is an older brother of former welterweight champion Ike Quartey. He not only won a medal at the Olympics, but he also won a gold medal at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games held in Perth, Australia.(born April 12, 1938 in Accra)"
"Rhodesia at the 1960 Summer Paralympics Rhodesia competed at the inaugural Summer Paralympic Games in 1960 in Rome. It was the only African country to take part. Rhodesia sent two competitors to the games, one of whom was Margaret Harriman, who competed in archery and swimming. Harriman won a total of five medals, placing her country 11th out of 17 on the medal table. She took gold in both the archery events she participated in, and won a silver medal and two bronze in swimming. Harriman's strongest event was archery. She won gold in both the events she entered, and"
"won the bronze medal. Curiously, there were two people named Malcolm Spence running the 400 meters distance at the 1960 Olympics, both getting a bronze medal. Malcolm Spence from Jamaica was unable to get out of the semi-final round in the Open race. But the Jamaican, who shortened his name to Mal Spence, led off his British West Indian relay team which finished a second ahead of the South African relay team anchored by this Malcolm Spence. Malcolm Spence (South African athlete) Malcolm Clive Spence (4 September 1937 in Johannesburg – 30 December 2010) was a South African athlete who"
"Paralympics). South Africa also participated in the Winter Olympic Games in 1960, and since 1994. South African athletes have won a total of 86 medals, with athletics, boxing, and swimming as the top medal-producing sports. South Africa at the Olympics South Africa first participated at the Olympic Games in 1904, and sent athletes to compete in every Summer Olympic Games until 1960. After the passage of United Nations General Assembly Resolution 1761 in 1962 in response to South Africa's policy of apartheid, the nation was barred from the Games. After the negotiations to end apartheid in South Africa commenced in"
"Abdoulaye Seye Abdoulaye Seye (30 July 1934 – 13 October 2011) was a Senegalese sprinter. He competed for France at the 1960 Olympics in the 100 m, 200 m and 4 × 100 m relay events and won a bronze medal in the 200 m. Although Senegal had received its independence from France two months ahead of the Olympics as part of the short-lived Mali Federation, in 1960 it still competed as part of France. Seye also won the 100 m gold medal at the 1959 Mediterranean Games. As a teenager Seye played football for the club Foyer France Senegal,"
"Emmanuel Ifeajuna Emmanuel Arinze Ifeajuna (1935 – 25 September 1967) was a Nigerian army major and high jumper who played a principal role in the January 15, 1966 military coup. He was the first Black African to win a gold medal at an international sports event when he won at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games. His winning mark and personal best of 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m) was a games record and a British Empire record at the time. An Igbo from Onitsha, he was a science graduate University College of Ibadan and became involved in politics,"
"first ever Olympic medal. As of 2016, only one other Nigerien athlete has won an Olympic medal. That was Abdoul Razak Issoufou, who won a silver medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Taekwondo. At the 1973 All-Africa Games in Lagos, Dabore participated in the light-welterweight competition. He won the silver medal, losing in the final to Obisia Nwankpa of Nigeria. Issake Dabore Issake Dabore (born 1940) is a retired boxer from Niger who mainly fought in the light-welterweight and welterweight weight classes. Dabore competed at three Olympics; Tokyo 1964, Mexico City 1968 and Munich 1972. He was the first"
"woman in the world in the 1960s and became the first American woman, to win three gold medals in a single Olympic Games. Due to the worldwide television coverage of the 1960 Summer Olympics, Rudolph became an international star along with other Olympic athletes such as Cassius Clay (later known as Muhammad Ali), Oscar Robertson, and Rafer Johnson who competed in Italy. As an Olympic champion in the early 1960s, Rudolph was among the most highly visible black women in America and abroad. She became a role model for black and female athletes and her Olympic successes helped elevate women's"
"Executive Council). Sir Stanley Rous, FIFA's president then, described Djan as a 'valued' player at the World football governing body. Aside football Ghana made giant strides in other sporting disciplines in his era as a Sports administrator. Ghana produced a silver medalist at the 1960 Summer Olympics in the name of Clement Quartey he became the first black African olympic medalist. Ghana was also the African country that won the most medals in the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games. Due to the influential role he played in Nkrumah's government, Djan was banned from public activities by the National Liberation"
"the Olympic Games as ""The Tornado, the fastest woman on earth."" The Italians nicknamed her ""La Gazzella Nera"" (""The Black Gazelle"") and the French called her ""La Perle Noire"" (""The Black Pearl""). Along with other 1960 Olympic athletes such as Cassius Clay (later known as Muhammad Ali), Oscar Robertson, and Rafer Johnson, Rudolph became an international star due to the first worldwide television coverage of the Olympics that year. The 1960 Rome Olympics launched Rudolph into the public spotlight and the media cast her as America's athletic ""leading lady"" and a ""queen,"" with praises of her athletic accomplishments as well"
"20k. At the front was Eritrean Yonas Kifle, Ethiopian Deriba Merga, Kenya's Martin Lel and Sammy Wanjiru, and Moroccan Jaouad Gharib. over the next 10k Deriba Merga started to press the pace, dropping Lel and Kifle. Just after 30k, Sammy Wanjiru attacked Deriba Merga who would crack and fade out of the medals. Sammy Wanjiru continued to sustain his gap back to Gharib. Gharib slowly reeled the deficit back but Wanjiru won the gold medal in an Olympic record 2:06:32. Gharib got silver, and Tsegaye Kebede pulled himself into third to take the bronze. Prior to this competition, the existing"
"won by Khalid Boulami of Morocco. John Mwathiwa was 29 years old at the time of these Olympics, and was making his third consecutive, and final, Olympic appearance. On 4 August, he took part in the Marathon, a race that was held without rounds or heats. He finished in 2 hours, 24 minutes, 45 seconds, which put him in 65th place among 111 athletes who finished the race. The gold medal was won in 2 hours, 12 minutes and 36 seconds by Josia Thugwane of South Africa, the silver by South Korean runner Lee Bong-ju, and the bronze was won"
"of Olympic standard. Brundage felt the discrimination rule only applied at the Olympics itself, not at domestic competition, and so South Africa was allowed to compete at the 1960 Olympics in Rome. The same year, it competed at the Winter Olympics for the first time. South Africa's isolation increased in 1960–61 when it declared a Republic and left the Commonwealth. SAOCGA was renamed SAONGA (the South African Olympic and National Games Association) as it was no longer eligible for the Commonwealth Games; it was later more usually called SANOC (South Africa National Olympic Committee). In 1962, Jan de Klerk announced"
"people would cause them to assert their independence. Attempts were made to host the games in Algiers, Algeria in 1925 and Alexandria, Egypt in 1928, but despite considerable preparations taken by coordinators, the efforts failed. The International Olympic Committee's (IOC) first African member, Greek-born Egyptian sprinter Angelo Bolanaki, donated funds to erect a stadium, but still the Games were set back for another three decades. In the early 1960s, French-speaking countries of Africa including France organized the Friendship Games. The Games were organized by Madagascar (1960) and then Côte d'Ivoire (1961). The third games were set for Senegal in 1963."
"the 1956 and the 1960 Olympics, both getting a bronze medal in 1960. Malcolm Spence from South Africa took the bronze medal in the Open race, while the South African relay team finished in fourth, one second behind Mal Spence's British West Indian relay team. Both twins returned to run the 4x400 relay in 1964 as members of the first independent Jamaican team. Living in Florida, he served as a torchbearer for the 1996 Olympics in nearby Atlanta. Both Mal and his twin brother were recruited to run for Arizona State University in the early civil rights days of the"
"the strict quarantine laws of Australia, the equestrian events were held in Stockholm. At the 1960 Rome Games a young light-heavyweight boxer named Cassius Clay, later known as Muhammad Ali, arrived on the scene. Ali would later throw his gold medal away in disgust after being refused service in a whites-only restaurant in his home town of Louisville, Kentucky. He was awarded a new medal 36 years later at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. Other performers of note in 1960 included Wilma Rudolph, a gold medallist in the 100 meters, 200 meters and 4 × 100 meters relay events. The"
"her base to Japan. . Fellow Kenyan-born runners Sally Barsosio and Lornah Kiplagat are her cousins. <br> Susan Sirma Susan Sirma (born May 26, 1966) is a retired Kenyan middle distance runner best known for winning a bronze medal over 3000 metres at the 1991 World Championships, becoming the first black African woman to win a track and field medal at World Championship or Olympic level. Sirma also won two gold medals over this distance at the All-Africa Games, in fact the only times the 3000 metres was staged at the Games. In 1991 she also won the 1500 metres,"
"Mbalula said that Paralympic medal winners and their coaches would receive the same performance bonuses that their Olympic counterparts were promised. The amounts initially promised were significantly lower. The minister said the original plan was discriminatory. The following South African competitors won medals at the games. South African track and field athletes won a combined 17 medals at the Games, four gold, seven silver and six bronze. Sprinter Oscar Pistorius, who carried the nation's flag at the opening ceremony, was the most successful South African athlete winning individual gold in the T44 400 metres, gold in the 4 × 100"
"the Olympic Games for the first time at the 1964 Summer Olympics with gymnast Mohamed Lazhari. Algeria withdrew from the 1976 Summer Olympics due to the refusal of the IOC to ban countries who had competed in South Africa amidst its apartheid policies. Almost every nation in Africa participated in the boycott. South Africa itself had been banned from the Olympics since 1964. In the 1980 Summer Olympics Algeria participated for the first time in a team sport, competing in both football and handball. Their first medal came at the 1984 Summer Olympics, where Mustapha Moussa won bronze in boxing."