quest as he was knocked out in his fight against Nigeria’s Chika Yagazie Chukwumerije who would eventually win the bronze medal in the heavyweight 80 kg category in Beijing an event that almost felt like a funeral to most Malians.


Despite this Keita has achieved what no other man in Sub Saharan Africa has ever done and he is forever stamped in the annals of African Sports History as the pioneer of Profes- sional Martial Arts Champions for Africa with his win of the World’s Heavyweight Taekwondo Championship belt.


No. 49 Chidi Imoh Country:


Nigeria Sport: Track and Field


Before there was a Frankie Frederick and a Francis Obikwelu there was Chidi Imoh. Chidi was the flag bearer of the sprints for Africa and was quite dominant in his day as evidenced by his record of two Gold’s in the African Championships in 1984 and 85 in Rabat Morocco and Cairo re- spectively and Gold in the 1987 All African Games in Nairobi Kenya. Chidi was however overshadowed by the headlining sprinter Carl Lewis of the US and of course the drug cheat Ben Johnson of Canada who was finally disgraced in 1988. But Chidi Imoh is a s accom- plished a sprinter as there ever was. He topped of his career with his lone Olympic medal which he earned as a member of the Nigerian 4x100meters quartet in the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games with a Silver Medal.


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