caption event death_date death_place club birth_place weight image_size height pb sport birth_date image article_title
abdoulaye seye -lrb- right -rrb- at the 1960 olympics sprint 13 october 2011 -lrb- aged 77 -rrb- thiès , senegal casg paris saint-louis , senegal 68 kg lb on 260px 1.74 m ftin on 100 -rrb- 200 m -- 20.82 -lrb- 20.7 -rrb- -lrb- 1960 m -rrb- 400 -- 45.88 -lrb- 1960 -rrb- -- 10.32 -lrb- 10.2 -rrb- -lrb- 1960 athletics 30 july 1934 lester carney , livio berruti , abdoulaye seye 1960.jpg abdoulaye seye

abdoulaye seye

abdoulaye seye -lrb- 30 july 1934 -- 13 october 2011 -rrb- was a senegalese sprinter .
he competed for france at the 1960 olympics in the 100 m , 200 m and 4 × 100 m relay events and won a bronze medal in the 200 m. although senegal had received its independence from france two months ahead of the olympics as part of the short-lived mali federation , in 1960 it still competed as part of france .
seye also won the 100 m gold medal at the 1959 mediterranean games .
as a teenager seye played football for the club foyer france senegal , and focused on sprint running only in 1954 , during his national service in toulon .
he later won french national titles in the 100 m -lrb- 1959 -rrb- and 200 m -lrb- 1956 , 1959 -rrb- and set national records in the 100 m -lrb- 1959 -rrb- , 200 m -lrb- 1959 , 1960 -rrb- and 400 m -lrb- 1959 , 1960 -rrb- .
in 1961 , seye founded the olympic committee of senegal .
between 1961 and 1965 he was the head coach of the national athletics team and later served as adviser to the senegalese ministry of sports .
