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Top 30 Europeans


Malamine Koné CEO and founder, Airness Sport, France


French businessman Malamine Koné is the founder and CEO of the Airness sportswear brand. Airness is the biggest-selling French sportswear label worldwide and one of the top-10 bestselling sportswear brands in France, supplying football shirts to many of the biggest professional sides in the country. Malamine’s label continues to thrive and excel, the latest advance was the launch of the Airness fragrance line in 2008. Malamine’s personal story is remarkable. He arrived in France from Mali, where he had been a barefoot shepherd, at the age of 10 to join his parents who had moved there a few years before. He couldn’t speak a word of French, but soon caught up and later went to university. Initially he had wanted to join the police force, but decided instead to become a boxer. He excelled and became a double champion of France, but his career was cut short by a car accident that required him to have a series of operations on a knee. It was aſt er that that he decided to set up his sportswear company.


Laura Flessel-Colovic Épée fencer, France


Known as ‘the Wasp’ for her aggressive fencing style, Laura Flessel-Colovic is identifi ed as one of France’s greatest ever Olympians, with a career that has spanned an incredible fi ve Games. Despite being unable to grab the gold at this year’s 2012 London Summer Olympics, Laura remains France’s number one female Olympic athlete. She was selected to carry the national fl ag for the French athletic team during the London 2012 opening ceremony. Originally from Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, Laura Flessel-Colovic has been fencing since the age of seven. She leſt Guadeloupe for France, leaving behind family and friends, to pursue of her athletic career. She fi rst appeared on the Olympic programme in 1996. Since then her dedication and competitiveness in sport has driven her to win fi ve Olympic medals, receiving two gold medals in 1996, two bronzes in 2000 and 2004, and later a silver medal in 2004. She is also the holder of six world championship gold medals.


Audrey Pulvar Journalist, France


French journalist Audrey Pulvar is a well- known television and radio presenter. Audrey is a leading face for a number of the country’s prestigious cable stations. She was born in 1972 on the Caribbean island of Martinique but was brought up in France, where she achieved a degree in journalism from the Graduate School of Journalism, Paris in 1994. Audrey started her career as an intern (1994), reporting at the Caribbean Television Network ATV. T e following year she became a presenter of the evening news, before becoming deputy editor in 1999. In April 2002 she began to work for France’s cable news channel LCI, which provides daily coverage of national and global news, whilst simultaneously working for TV5 Monde.In 2003 Audrey’s ambitious drive earned her a place on France’s public station France 3 as a news anchor, making her the the fi rst black woman to make a newscast on French TV. in July 2012, Audrey was made director of France’s weekly show Inrockuptibles.


Yelena Khanga Journalist and TV host of Cross Talk, Russia


Author of the autobiography Soul to Soul: The Story of a Black Russian American Family: 1865 – 1992 and former host of top- rated ‘90s chat show About That, Yelena Khanga is one of Russia’s best-known black citizens and one of the few black faces seen regularly on Russian television. After graduating from Moscow State University with a degree in journalism in1984, she began her television career in the early ’90s becoming Russia’s first black TV reporter for Moscow World News, interviewing leaders of the Soviet Union. Yelena was the first female journalist chosen by the Soviet government to participate in a journalistic exchange program in 1987, writing for the American newspaper Christian Science Monitor in Boston. Her work in the United States spearheaded her success in becoming the principal representative of Russia’s first talk show, About That (1997 to 2000), which dealt with intimate topics such as HIV and AIDS, homosexuality and sexual harassment. Although she officially emigrated to the US in 1991, she continues to travel back and forth between America and Russia working as a journalist and is at present one of the hosts of Cross Talk on Russia Today television.


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