Cheick Sallah Cissé

Cheick Sallah Cissé (born 19 September 1993) is an Ivorian taekwondo athlete. He won the gold medal in the men's heavyweight event at the 2023 World Taekwondo Championships held in Baku, Azerbaijan.[1]

Cheick Sallah Cissé
Personal information
Nickname(s)Polozo
NationalityIvorian
Born (1993-09-19) 19 September 1993
Bouaké, Cote d'Ivoire
Height189 cm (6 ft 2 in)
Sport
SportTaekwondo
Event(s) –80 kg
ClubINEKA Taekwondo
Medal record
Representing  Ivory Coast
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place2016 Rio De Janeiro80 kg
World Championships
Gold medal – first place2023 Baku+87 kg
Grand Prix
Gold medal – first place2015 Moscow80 kg
Gold medal – first place2017 Rabat80 kg
Gold medal – first place2017 London80 kg
Gold medal – first place2017 Abidjan (F)80 kg
Gold medal – first place2022 Riyadh (F)+80 kg
Silver medal – second place2015 Samsun80 kg
Silver medal – second place2018 Taoyuan80 kg
Silver medal – second place2022 Rome+80 kg
Bronze medal – third place2015 Manchester80 kg
Bronze medal – third place2017 Moscow80 kg
Bronze medal – third place2018 Fujairah (F)80 kg
Bronze medal – third place2019 Rome80 kg
Bronze medal – third place2022 Paris+80 kg
Bronze medal – third place2022 Manchester+80 kg
African Games
Gold medal – first place2015 Brazzaville80 kg
Gold medal – first place2019 Rabat80 kg
African Championships
Gold medal – first place2016 Port Said80 kg
Gold medal – first place2021 Dakar87 kg
Silver medal – second place2018 Agadir80 kg
Silver medal – second place2022 Kigali87 kg
Bronze medal – third place2014 Tunis80 kg
Universiade
Silver medal – second place2015 Gwangju80 kg

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.[2] 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.[3] The gold was Ivory Coast's first ever Olympic title,[4] 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.[4]

He also qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics in the men's 80 kg event.[5]

References
  1. Burke, Patrick (4 June 2023). "Cissé claims first World Taekwondo Championships title seven years on from Olympic gold". InsideTheGames.biz. Retrieved 5 June 2023.
  2. "Cheick Sallah Junior Cisse". rio2016.com. Archived from the original on 26 August 2016. Retrieved 18 August 2016.
  3. "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.
  4. "Cisse's last-second kick delivers gold for Ivory Coast". Reuters. Retrieved 20 August 2016.
  5. Soir, Afrik (2020-02-24). "Côte d'Ivoire : Seydou Gbané et Aminata Traoré qualifiés en Taekwondo pour les JO 2020". Afrik Soir (in French). Archived from the original on 2020-02-25. Retrieved 2020-02-25.


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