Nantenin Keita: music, awards, disability, Mali… Who is the standard bearer?

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Nantenin Keita music awards disability Mali Who is the standard

Flag bearer for the Paralympic Games, the Frenchwoman hopes to bring home medals.

Nantenin Keita is a French Paralympic athlete, born in Bamako, Mali. Daughter of the great Malian musician Salif Keita, she is one of the stars of French disabled athletics. Albino and visually impaired, she has made her difference a strength. With a BTS in Commercial Action, she joined the Human Resources team at Malakoff Médéric in 2009, where her mission is to promote the integration of people with disabilities and their development throughout their professional careers.

Flag bearer in Paris for the Paralympic Games, for Nantenin Keïta, the Games will allow progress on “awareness, inclusion and integration of people with disabilities”. “We know that sport is a means of raising awareness, a means of breaking down prejudices around disability”. She had made an impression at the session of the International Olympic Committee in Lima, Peru, on September 13, 2017, the date on which Paris was awarded the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Difference has always been a part of my life, she told the assembly. I am albino and visually impaired. But at the Games, I am an athlete. Because at the Games, there are as many countries as there are disabilities. At the Games, difference has its place. At the Games, difference is a strength. “

Awards

  • 2023 – World Championships
  • Paris : 4th – 400m T13
  • 2021 – Paralympic Games
  • Tokyo: 4th – 400m T13
  • 2021 – European Championships
  • Bydgoszcz: Bronze medal – 400m T13 / Bronze medal – universal relay
  • 2016 – Paralympic Games
  • Rio: Gold medal – 400m T13 / 5th place – 100m T13
  • 2016 – European Championship
  • Grosseto: Gold Medal – 400m T13 / Gold Medal – 200m T13
  • 2015 – World Championship
  • Doha: Gold Medal – 400m T13 / Silver Medal – 100m T13
  • 2014 – European Championship
  • Swansea: Gold Medal – 400m T13
  • 2012 – Paralympic Games
  • London: Bronze medal – 100m T13 / 4th place – 400m T13
  • 2011 – World Championship
  • Christchurch: Bronze medal – 100m T13 / 4th place – 400m T13 / 5th place – 200m T13
  • 2008 – Paralympic Games
  • Beijing: Silver medal – 200m T13 / Bronze medal – 400m T13 / 4th place – 100m T13 / 4th place – long jump T13
  • 2006 – World Championship
  • Assen: Gold Medal – 200m T13 / Gold Medal – 400m T13 / Silver Medal – 100m T13 / 6th Place – Long Jump T13

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