Sebastien Konan
Sebastien N'Guessan Konan is a Talented taekwondo athlete from Cote D'Ivoire. He started Taekwondo at the young age. He is Two-time Olympian athlete for Côte d'Ivoire. Sebastien Konan is the athlete who represent officially Cote D'Ivoire for the first time in Olympic game in Taekwondo when the sport became an olympic event in Sydney Australia. Sebastien Konan won many Gold medals in national and international competition. He was decorated 3 times with Medal of Honor from the Ministry of Sport and the Chancellor. He was ambassador of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as scholarship bearer. He won the gold medal at the 1999 All-Africa Games in Taekwondo for the first time in Cote d'Ivoire and Gold medal at the 2006 US Taekwondo open and US national, 4 Times Gold medal African Taekwondo Championship, 2 Times Gold medal World Francophonie Cup, 15 Times National Champion and Gold medal in many other international open tournament.
He appeared on many newspapers and TV Show in Cote D'Ivoire, Washington Post, CNN, BBC and WITN News, TV5 France, Sport Magazine, ADELPHIA Cable, etc..
External links
- Profile from Sports-Reference