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Jacques Ayé Abehi

Olympic athlete

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ6120401 ↗
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Jacques Ayé Abehi (born 1942) is an Ivorian former javelin thrower who competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics and in the 1976 Summer Olympics. He was the gold medallist at the 1973 All-Africa Games and the 1979 African Championships in Athletics. He held the African javelin throw record and was described as a "legend" of the sport and a "famous" athlete during his era.

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“Jacques Ayé Abehi” enters the record as olympic athlete. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Jacques, Abehi and Olympic can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Jacques Ayé Abehi” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.