Six athletes included in 100 most influential Africans list

Other athletes on the honour list are retired 39-year-old Kenyan runner and world record holder Tegla Laroupe, 27-year-old Ethiopian triple gold medallist, the first woman to defend her Olympic title over 10,000 metres and the most successful Ethiopian female athlete, Tirunesh Dibaba, and Ugandan Stephen Kiprotich, the 23-year-old Olympic marathon champion with a winning time of 2 hours, eight minutes and one second.

The two sports administrators on the list are Lamine Diack, a Senegalese who is the President of the International Association of Athletic Federations, IAAF, and Issa Hayatou, President of the Confederation of African Football, CAF, AfriqueJet Actualité says.

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