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General Interest

Highlights: Senegal's first Olympic team competed at the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo, where an all-male team contested a range of athletics events. Triple jumper Mansour Dia was the best performed, finishing 13th. He improved to an eighth place finish at the 1968 edition and then went two better in 1972, finishing sixth in his third and final Games.

Dia's teammate on the track and field squad at the 1968 Games, Amadou Gakou, achieved what remains one of Senegal's best Olympic results, a fourth in the men's 400m. It was Gakou's second Olympic Games, and he went on to compete at another in 1972, but did not manage to repeat that level of success.

Senegal had to wait until 1988 for its first, and still only, Olympic medal. At the Seoul Games, Amadou Dia Ba finished second in the men's 400m hurdles, improving on the fifth-place finish he had achieved in the event four years earlier. He did not fare as well four years later in Barcelona, failing to progress out of his heat.

Continuing a tradition of strong athletics performances, the Senegalese men's 4x400m relay team finished fourth at the 1996 Games in Atlanta, missing bronze by under a second.

At the Rio 2016 Games, Senegal sent a 22-member team to compete in eight sports. As she did in the London 2012 Games, Isabelle Sambou secured the best result for the West African nation, finishing eighth in the women's 53kg freestyle wrestling event. In London, she placed equal fifth in the women's 48kg division.