Diana Leo Gandega (born 2 June 1983 in Paris) is a

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- Malian

women's basketball Women's basketball is the team sport of basketball played by women. It began being played in 1892, one year after men's basketball, at Smith College in Massachusetts. It spread across the United States, in large part via women's college compet ...

player. Gandega competed for Mali at the

2008 Summer Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Na ...

, where she scored 15 points in 5 games, including 8 points in the first match, a 4-point loss to New Zealand. Her younger sister

Touty Gandega Touty Gandega (born 20 June 1991) is a French-Malian women's basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the pri ...

is also a basketball player. Touty et Diana, deux championnes chez les Gandega
23 Sept 2010 "Elles sont sœurs, elles sont basketteuses et elles sont vice-championnes continentales, en Afrique pour l'aînée, en Europe (chez les juniors) pour la plus jeune."

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1983 births Living people French women's basketball players Malian women's basketball players Olympic basketball players for Mali Basketball players at the 2008 Summer Olympics Basketball players from Paris French sportspeople of Malian descent African Games gold medalists for Mali African Games medalists in basketball Competitors at the 2015 African Games {{Mali-basketball-bio-stub