Sport
Sheikh Tidiane Faye
High-jump pioneer
1948–2013Sheikh Tidiane Faye won The Gambia’s first Commonwealth Games medal with high-jump bronze at Edinburgh in 1970. He followed it with silver at the 1973 African Games. A high and long jumper, he also competed collegiately at Middle Tennessee State in the United States.
THEIR MARK ON HISTORY
01Won Commonwealth Games high-jump bronze in 1970.
02Won African Games high-jump silver in 1973.
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