Ahmed El Ouafi Boughéra
October 15, 1898 · 127 years old
Ahmed El Ouafi Boughéra (Arabic: أحمد بوقرة الوافي) is a French athlete and worker born October 15, 1898 in Ouled Djellal in Algeria and died October 18, 1959 in Saint-Denis in France. In 1928, he became the first indigenous African athlete to win an Olympic medal and even more so to be an Olympic…
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El Ouafi Bouguera, the marathon runner of history
2018 · 28m · Movie
On August 5, 1928, after 2 hours and 32 minutes of racing, the 71st rooster wearing the bib entered the Olympic stadium in Amsterdam. Ahmed El Ouafi Bouguéra wins the gold medal and becomes the first Olympic champion from the Afri...
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