Anta Sambou


Anta Sambou is a Senegalese freestyle wrestler. She is a two-time medalist at the African Games. She won the gold medal in her event at the 2022 African Wrestling Championships held in El Jadida, Morocco.

Career

She represented Senegal at the 2019 African Games and she won the silver medal in the women's freestyle 68kg event. In 2020, she won the silver medal in the women's freestyle 68kg event at the African Wrestling Championships held in Algiers, Algeria.
She competed at the 2021 African & Oceania Wrestling Olympic Qualification Tournament hoping to qualify for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.
She competed in the 72kg event at the 2021 Islamic Solidarity Games held in Konya, Turkey.

Achievements

YearTournamentLocationResultEvent
2011African Wrestling ChampionshipsDakar, Senegal3rdFreestyle 67 kg
2013African Wrestling ChampionshipsN'Djamena, Chad2ndFreestyle 67 kg
2014African Wrestling ChampionshipsTunis, Tunisia2ndFreestyle 60 kg
2015African Wrestling ChampionshipsAlexandria, Egypt3rdFreestyle 63 kg
2015African GamesBrazzaville, Republic of the Congo3rdFreestyle 63 kg
2017African Wrestling ChampionshipsMarrakesh, Morocco3rdFreestyle 69 kg
2018African Wrestling ChampionshipsPort Harcourt, Nigeria2ndFreestyle 68 kg
2019African Wrestling ChampionshipsHammamet, Tunisia2ndFreestyle 68 kg
2019African GamesRabat, Morocco2ndFreestyle 68 kg
2020African Wrestling ChampionshipsAlgiers, Algeria2ndFreestyle 68 kg
2022African Wrestling ChampionshipsEl Jadida, Morocco1stFreestyle 72 kg
2023African Wrestling ChampionshipsHammamet, Tunisia3rdFreestyle 76 kg