Daba Modibo Keïta

Daba Modibo Keïta ( born April 5, 1981 in Abidjan, Ivory Coast ) is a Malian Taekwondoin. It starts at heavyweight.

Keïta grew up in the Ivory Coast, but had to flee with his family to Mali, the home of his parents in 2000. There he began, together with his two brothers, first with Taekwondo. In 2005 he was accepted into a program of support of the World Taekwondo Federation ( WTF ), which allowed him a professional training in France and the United States. Keïta played his first international title fights at the World Championships 2005 in Madrid, but different in his opening fight of. Two years later he was able to advance to the international top. He won at the 2007 World Championships in Beijing in the weight category over 84 kg with a superior final win the gold medal. In Manchester he was about 80 kg to reach the final and available to participate in the Olympic Games in Beijing, where he reached the quarter- finals, but there was eliminated against Chika Chukwumerije and aft was also at the Olympic qualifying tournament in the class. In 2009, Keïta repeated at the World Championships in Copenhagen, winning the gold medal in the heavyweight division.

In the following years, Keïta took part in no other title fights, but denied the beginning of 2012 the African Olympic qualifying tournament in Cairo, where he missed the direct qualification for the London Olympics after losing to Anthony Obame first, by the WTF, but a wild card for his second participation received. In London he reached the battle for the bronze medal, but this could not deny an injury.