Issake Dabore

Issaka Daboré (* 1940 in Dingazi Banda ) is a former Nigerien boxer. He is the first athlete of his country, who took part in the Olympic Games, and to date the only Nigerien medalist.

Life

Issaka Daboré began his boxing career according to own data in April 1958. His first bronze medal he won in 1961 for friendly matches 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.

Daboré took in 1964 - nine months after the recording of the Comité National Olympique et Sportif Nigeria in the International Olympic Committee - in Tokyo as part of a one-man team at the Summer Olympics. With the Olympic debut of his country, he penetrated through welterweight knockout victories against Tshun - Fu Hong Chinese Taipei and Hans -Erik Pedersen from Denmark equal to the quarter-finals before, but it lost to the Finns Pertti Purhonen almost 2:3 with judges' votes. Four years later at the Summer Olympic Games in Mexico City, he won the light welterweight against José Isaac Marín from Costa Rica 5-0, but lost in the second round against Yevgeny Frolov from the Soviet Union 1:4.

The greatest success of his career succeeded Daboré at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, where he at first light welterweight in the semifinals of the Bulgarians Angel Angelov 0:5 defeated and the bronze medal won the first and hitherto only Olympic medal for his country. Previously, he had Odartey Lawson from Ghana ( Ko), Tai Shik Park struck from South Korea ( Ko) and Kyoji Shinohara from Japan ( 3-2 ).

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