The Most Famous
ATHLETES from The Gambia
This page contains a list of the greatest Gambian Athletes. The pantheon dataset contains 3,059 Athletes, 1 of which were born in The Gambia. This makes The Gambia the birth place of the 136th most number of Athletes behind Åland Islands and Puerto Rico.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Gambian Athletes of all time. This list of famous Gambian Athletes is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Jaysuma Saidy Ndure (1984 - )
With an HPI of 26.06, Jaysuma Saidy Ndure is the most famous Gambian Athlete. His biography has been translated into 20 different languages on wikipedia.
Jaysuma Saidy Ndure (born 1 January 1984) is a Gambian-Norwegian sprinter. He is of Serer heritage of the noble Ndure family. In 2002, he went to Oslo, aged 18 and settled with his father who has lived in Norway since the 1970s. Having changed nationality from Gambia to Norway in 2006, he holds Norwegian records in the 100 and in the 200 metres, and is the seventh and fourth fastest European of all times on the two distances. He has a bronze medal from the African Championships and several top-three placings in IAAF Golden League meets and the IAAF World Athletics Final.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as athletes born between 1984 and 1984. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living athletes include Jaysuma Saidy Ndure.
