Cheick Sallah Cissé

Cheick Sallah Cissé (born 19 September 1993) is an Ivorian taekwondo athlete. He won the gold medal in the men's heavyweight event at the 2023 World Taekwondo Championships held in Baku, Azerbaijan.^[1]

Cheick Sallah Cissé

Personal information
Nickname	Polozo
Nationality	Ivorian
Born	(1993-09-19) 19 September 1993 (age 30) Bouaké, Cote d'Ivoire
Height	189 cm (6 ft 2 in)
Sport
Sport	Taekwondo
Event	–80 kg
Club	INEKA Taekwondo
Medal record Representing  Ivory Coast Olympic Games 2016 Rio De Janeiro 80 kg World Championships 2023 Baku +87 kg Grand Prix 2015 Moscow 80 kg 2017 Rabat 80 kg 2017 London 80 kg 2017 Abidjan (F) 80 kg 2022 Riyadh (F) +80 kg 2023 Paris +80 kg 2023 Manchester (F) +80 kg 2015 Samsun 80 kg 2018 Taoyuan 80 kg 2022 Rome +80 kg 2015 Manchester 80 kg 2017 Moscow 80 kg 2018 Fujairah (F) 80 kg 2019 Rome 80 kg 2022 Paris +80 kg 2022 Manchester +80 kg African Games 2015 Brazzaville 80 kg 2019 Rabat 80 kg African Championships 2016 Port Said 80 kg 2021 Dakar 87 kg 2018 Agadir 80 kg 2022 Kigali 87 kg 2014 Tunis 80 kg Universiade 2015 Gwangju 80 kg

After winning gold at the 2015 African Games in the men's 80 kg, he represented Ivory Coast at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro in the same category.^[2] He reached the final of the tournament, competing against Britain's Lutalo Muhammad. Behind by six points to five, Cissé scored with a head-kick in the final second of the match to win the tie 8–6 and take the gold medal.^[3] The gold was Ivory Coast's first ever Olympic title,^[4] and came on a night where Ruth Gbagbi won a bronze in the women's 67 kg taekwondo, increasing the country's all-time Olympic medals from one to three in one session.^[4]

He also qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics in the men's 80 kg event.^[5]