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{{Short description|French-Senegalese sprinter (1934–2011)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2015}}
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|image=Lester Carney, Livio Berruti, Abdoulaye Seye 1960.jpg
| image_size     =260px
|caption=Abdoulaye Seye (right) at the 1960 Olympics
|birth_date= 30 July 1934
|birth_place=[[Saint-Louis, Senegal]] 
| death_date =  13 October 2011 (aged 77) 
| death_place = [[Thiès]], Senegal
| height = {{convert|1.74|m|ftin|abbr=on}}
| weight = {{convert|68|kg|lb|abbr=on}}
|sport=Athletics
|event=Sprint
|club= CASG Paris
|pb=100 m – 10.32 (10.2) (1960)<br> 200 m – 20.82 (20.7) (1960)<br> 400 – 45.88 (1960)
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{{MedalCompetition|[[Olympic Games]]}}
{{MedalBronze  | [[1960 Summer Olympics|1960 Rome]] | [[Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics|200 m]]}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[Mediterranean Games]]}}
{{MedalGold|[[1959 Mediterranean Games|1959 Beirut]]|[[Athletics at the 1959 Mediterranean Games|100 m]]}}
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'''Abdoulaye Seye''' (30 July 1934 – 13 October 2011)<ref name=obit/> was a [[Senegal]]ese sprinter. He competed for France at the 1960 Olympics in the 100 m, 200 m and 4 × 100 m relay events and won a bronze medal in the 200 m. Although Senegal had received its independence from France two months ahead of the Olympics as part of the short-lived [[Mali Federation]], in 1960 it still competed as part of France. Seye also won the 100 m gold medal at the [[1959 Mediterranean Games]].

As a teenager Seye played football for the club Foyer France Senegal, and focused on sprint running only in 1954, during his national service in [[Toulon]]. He later won French national titles in the 100 m (1959) and 200 m (1956, 1959) and set national records in the 100 m (1959), 200 m (1959, 1960) and 400 m (1959, 1960).<ref name=sr/>

In 1961, Seye founded the Olympic Committee of Senegal. Between 1961 and 1965 he was the head coach of the national athletics team and later served as adviser to the Senegalese Ministry of Sports.<ref name=sr/>

==References==
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<ref name=sr>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200417173523/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/se/abdou-seye-1.html Abdou Sèye]. sports-reference.com</ref>
<ref name=obit>[http://souslemanguier.com/nouvelles/news.asp?id=16&idnews=34108&pays=300 Décès d’Abdou Sèye, premier athlète africain médaillé aux JO]. souslemanguier.com. 14 October 2011</ref>
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[[Category:1934 births]]
[[Category:2011 deaths]]
[[Category:Senegalese male sprinters]]
[[Category:French male sprinters]]
[[Category:Olympic bronze medalists for France]]
[[Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1960 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Olympic athletes for France]]
[[Category:French sportspeople of Senegalese descent]]
[[Category:People of French West Africa]]
[[Category:Medalists at the 1960 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:FIBA Hall of Fame inductees]]
[[Category:Olympic bronze medalists in athletics (track and field)]]
[[Category:Mediterranean Games gold medalists for France]]
[[Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1959 Mediterranean Games]]
[[Category:Mediterranean Games medalists in athletics]]
[[Category:Sportspeople from Saint-Louis, Senegal]]
[[Category:20th-century French sportsmen]]
[[Category:20th-century Senegalese sportsmen]]


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