The Most Famous
BOXERS from Niger
This page contains a list of the greatest Nigerien Boxers. The pantheon dataset contains 496 Boxers, 1 of which were born in Niger. This makes Niger the birth place of the 51st most number of Boxers behind Slovenia, and U.S. Virgin Islands.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Nigerien Boxers of all time. This list of famous Nigerien Boxers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Issake Dabore (1940 - 2021)
With an HPI of 48.06, Issake Dabore is the most famous Nigerien Boxer. His biography has been translated into 17 different languages on wikipedia.
Issake Dabore (1940 – 25 December 2021) was a boxer from Niger who mainly fought in the light-welterweight and welterweight weight classes. Dabore competed at three Olympics; Tokyo 1964, Mexico City 1968 and Munich 1972. He was the first Nigerien person to compete at the Olympics and the first Nigerien to win an Olympic medal. Dabore won his Olympic medal at the 1972 Munich Olympics, where he won a bronze medal in the men's light-welterweight.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Nigerien boxers born between 1940 and 1940. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Nigerien boxers include Issake Dabore.
