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No 36. Luol Deng Country: Sudan


Sport: Basketball


Luol Deng and his family escaped persecution in the Sudan and were granted asylum in the United Kingdom, in the UK he would pick up a love of the sport of soccer which is one can say the national sport of the English anyhow earlier in his life while enroute to the UK Luol had started playing basketball as he had been taught by former NBA great; the late Manute Bol, he would start playing both sports and this lead to him being selected by the British national Under -15 team, he was selected to play in the European Junior Men's Qualifying Tournament where he averaged 40 points and 14 rebounds and was named the MVP of the tournament.


Luol is the second best offensive player to come out of Africa after Hakeem Olajuwon, and he currently plays for the Chicago Bulls. Deng won the 2006-2007 Golden Icon Award for Best Sports Role Model and is an avid spokesperson for a better Sudan his original Homeland.


No. 35 Mary Onyali-Omagbemi Country:


Nigeria Sports: Track and Field


Mary Onyali is the most accomplished Female Sprinter to come out of Africa. She is the African record holder in the 200 meters dash and one time record holder in the 100 meters as well.


She is one of very few athletes globally to appear in the most Olympic Games for their nation and in


her case, five times for Nigeria. Mary won the Bronze Medal in the 200 meters in the 1996 Olympic Games and was also part of the Bronze Medal winning 4 X 1 Women’s Relay Team at the 1992 Bar- celona Olympic Games. Mary is currently actively promoting the need for Nigeria to invest more in Athletics and also runs her own business of a Sports apparel clothing line called Yali-Yali.


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