Cheick Sallah Cissé

Cheick Sallah Cissé
Personal information
Nickname(s) Polozo
Nationality Ivorian
Born (1993-09-19) 19 September 1993
Bouaké, Cote d'Ivoire
Height 189 cm (6 ft 2 in)
Sport
Sport Taekwondo
Event(s)  –80 kg
Club INEKA Taekwondo
Medal record
Representing  Ivory Coast
Olympic Games
2016 Rio De Janeiro 80 kg
African Games
2015 Brazzaville Welterweight
African Championships
2015 Port Said Welterweight
2014 Tunis Welterweight
Universiade
2015 Gwangju Welterweight

Cheick Sallah Cissé (born 19 September 1993) is an Ivorian taekwondo athlete.

After winning gold at the 2015 African Games in the men's 80 kg, he represented Ivory Coast at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro in the same category.[1] He reached the final of the tournament, competing against Britain's Lutalo Muhammad. Behind by six points to five, Cissé scored with a head-kick in the final second of the match to win the tie 8-6 and take the gold medal.[2] The gold was Ivory Coast's first ever Olympic title,[3] and came on a night where Ruth Gbagbi won a bronze in the women's 67 kg taekwondo, increasing the country's all-time Olympic medals from one to three in one session.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Cheick Sallah Junior Cisse". rio2016.com. Archived from the original on 26 August 2016. Retrieved 18 August 2016.
  2. ↑ "Olympic taekwondo results 2016: Ivory Coast's Cheick Sallah Cissé wins 80kg gold at the buzzer, South Korea's Oh Hye-Ri wins 67kg". SB Nation. Retrieved 20 August 2016.
  3. 1 2 "Cisse's last-second kick delivers gold for Ivory Coast". Reuters. Retrieved 20 August 2016.


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