2015 All-Africa Games - Seychellois ready to take on African challenge |01 September 2015
Seychellois athletes who will be taking part in the All-Africa Games in Congo, Brazzaville from September 4-19, 2015 have already started flying out of the country to compete with the best on the continent.
The Seychelles team for the Games were presented last Friday afternoon at the Seychelles Trading Company’s (STC) conference room as part of the prize-giving ceremony for the medallists of the ninth Indian Ocean Island Games (IOIG).
A total of 110 people form part of the Seychelles delegation and they are leaving the country for the games at different dates, based on the start of the events in Congo, Brazzaville. The largest group left Seychelles on Sunday and they comprised the badminton players, the male and female volleyball teams and the boxing team.
National Sports Council (NSC) chief executive Giovanna Rousseau is the head of the delegation and she said only three groups of athletes have made the team. They are athletes who have met their discipline’s qualifying standards for the games; IOIG gold medallists, and athletes who are on Olympic Scholarships as part of their scholarships requires them to take part in a number of competitions including the All-Africa Games.
“We decided to only take these athletes because if our athletes were unable to win a gold medal at the IOIG which are ranked lower than the All-Africa Games, it would be difficult for them to compete against the whole of Africa,” said Ms Rousseau.
The monetary rewards for All-Africa Games medallists are R50,000 (gold medallist), R35,000 (silver medallist) and R15,000 (bronze medallist).
Seychelles will be taking part in 12 disciples: badminton, athletics, boxing, volleyball, basketball, table tennis, weightlifting, swimming, handisports, judo, taekwondo and karate.
The following is the complete list of athletes and officials attending the All-Africa Games.
Athletics: Leeroy Henriette, Lissa Labiche, Joanne Loutoy, Neddy Marie and Jude Sidonie
Badminton: Juliette Ah-Wan, Cynthia Course, Alisen Camille, Steve Malcouzane, Georgie Cupidon and Kervin Ghislain.
Basketball (Men): Timmy Adam, Keven Morel, Steven André, Arnaud Arissol, Bernard Bristol, Daniel Hoareau, Robert Leon, Faizel Naiken, Andrew Rath, Dave Roseline, Nigel Sinon and Ahmadou Sylla.
Boxing: Keddy Agnes, Andrique Allisop, Alva Botsoie and Keven Kilindo
Handisports: Cyril Charles and Steven Ernesta
Judo: Dominic Dugasse
Karate: James Faure, Aidan Suleman, Steven Fanny, Louis Vidot, Emanuel Elizabeth, Antoine Mein, Mastura Shah-Faure, Shujatha Chettiar, Gretel Jacques and Bernard Thérésine
Swimming: Alexus Laird
Table Tennis: Anniessa Benstrong and Mick Créa
Taekwondo: Alex Louise
Volleyball (Men): Jean-Paul Agathe, Rodney Ah-Kong, Gully Bijoux, Benjamin Bijoux, Shaine Farabeau, Caleb Souffe, Steve Jupiter, Sarel Leon, Paul Rose, Kenneth Sinon, Ricky Vel, Perrin Sophola and Freddy Denis.
Volleyball (Women): Petrina Victor, Melina Crispin, Nathalie Agnes, Marielle Bonne, Jerina Bonne, Manuella Monthy, Flora Lesperance and Cathrina Simon
Weightlifting: Clementina Agricole, Ruby Malvina, Janet Georges and Steven Baccus
Chef de mission: Robert Auguste
Assistant chef de mission: Rita Port-Louis
Head of delegation: Giovanna Rousseau
Ministry of sports representative: PS Denis Rose
The officials are: Tetyana Kozyr, Sanjeev Kumar, Joselle Labrosse, Guy Agricole, Gracey Narty, Derrick Sauzier, Elena Patrina, Alfred Cave (medical), Roger David, Andrick Savy (secretariat), Luo Guo Hui, Calix Francourt (badminton), François Ally, Derrick Andrew Ruudy Joseph, Julien Onezime, Bernard Denis, Lysebie Denis, Michael Ah-kong (volleyball), Herve Anthony and Rival Payet (boxing), Allen Joubert, Percy Vidot (karate), William Dixie, Reginald Estro (weightlifting), Dominique Guerret, Sumita Joubert, Tony Juliette, Francis Roucou (basketball), Kenny Roberts (swimming), Jimmy Vel (table tennis), Lucia Banane, Mifa Moncherry handisports), Mervyn Joubert (judo), Joseph Adam, Carlos Vizcaino (athletics)and Danny Emmanuel (taekwondo).
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