Ali Kamé (born 21 May 1984) is a Malagasy

track and field Track and field is a sport that includes athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name is derived from where the sport takes place, a running track and a grass field for the throwing and some of the jumping events ...

athlete who competes in the

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. He won the

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at the

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and was a bronze medallist at the

2011 All-Africa Games The 10th All-Africa Games took place between September 3–18, 2011 in Maputo, Mozambique. Maputo's hosting marked the third time the Games was held in the southern part of the continent. Host awarding In April 2005, Lusaka, Zambia was named t ...

. His personal best of 7685 points is the Malagasy record and he is a three-time winner of the

African Combined Events Championships The African Combined Events Championships (french: Championnats d'Afrique d'Épreuves Combinées) is an international athletics competition between African athletes in the disciplines of men's decathlon and women's heptathlon. It became part of the ...

Biography

Born in Namakia in Madagascar's

Mitsinjo District Mitsinjo is a district in western Madagascar. It is a part of Boeny Region and borders the districts of Marovoay in east, Ambato-Boeni in south and Soalala in west. The area is and the population was estimated to be 53,405 in 2001. Communes Th ...

, he began to compete internationally in the decathlon in 2007. A national record of 6564 points at the

Multistars Multistars is an annual international Combined track and field events competition held in Lana, Italy in late April or early May as part of the IAAF World Combined Events Challenge. Established in 1988 the meeting took place in Desenzano del Gard ...

meeting was followed by a wind-assisted 6740 points in

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. The

2007 All-Africa Games The 9th All-Africa Games took place between 11 and 23 July 2007 in Algiers, the capital city of Algeria. Algiers is the first city to hold All-Africa Games for a second time. The 1978 All-Africa Games were held there. Besides Algeria, only Nige ...

was his first outing for Madagascar and he placed seventh with a Malagasy record score of 7012 points. He added a point to this tally at an African Combined Events meeting in

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in April 2008. At the

2008 African Championships in Athletics The 16th African Championships in Athletics was held in Addis Ababa, the capital city of Ethiopia, from April 30 to May 4, 2008. The competition venue was the Addis Ababa Stadium. It is the largest Athletics event held in Ethiopia to date. It was t ...

, held a month later, he came close to the podium with a fourth-place finish.Ali Kame
IAAF. Retrieved on 2012-07-08. He returned to the European circuit that year, but placed 21st at both the Multistars and Arles meets. The re-establishment of the

Mauritius Mauritius ( ; french: Maurice, link=no ; mfe, label=Mauritian Creole, Moris ), officially the Republic of Mauritius, is an island nation in the Indian Ocean about off the southeast coast of the African continent, east of Madagascar. It incl ...

in 2009 saw him win his first regional title with a record mark of 7363 points. This proved to be his sole complete decathlon that year, as he failed to finish at his two regular European meets. Kamé began training at the

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High Performance Training Centre in Mauritius and he scored 7314 points in Réduit in April. He again collected over seven thousand points at the Multistars meet, taking fourteenth place as Africa's top performer. In his third and final decathlon that year he came fourth at the

2010 African Championships in Athletics The 2010 African Championships in Athletics was held in Nairobi, Kenya from 28 July to 1 August 2010. Background The African Championships in Athletics were held in Kenya for the first time. Previously two major athletics events have been held i ...

, repeating his finish from 2008. He returned and defended his Combined Events African title in 2011 with a national record score of 7685 points. He had his first top ten placing at Multistars and then won his first medal at a major competition, totalling 7458 points for the

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at the

behind

Jangy Addy Jangy McKinley Addy (born 2 March 1985) is a Liberian decathlete. He was born in 1985 in Sacramento, California, was raised in Norcross, Georgia and attended the University of Tennessee The University of Tennessee (officially The Universit ...

and

Guillaume Thierry Guillaume Thierry (born 15 September 1986) is a track and field athlete from the Republic of Mauritius. He first represented his country at pole vault in which he competed at the 2003 World Youth Championships in Athletics held in Sherbrooke, ...

. His good form continued into 2012 as he began by winning a third African Combined Events title ahead of Theirry. He was again top ten at the Multistars meet and was sixth at the TNT – Fortuna Meeting with a score of 7443 points. Later that June he won his first major continental title at the

, although the field of competitors was small.2012 African Championships
.

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. Retrieved on 2012-07-08.

Competition record

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kame, Ali Living people 1984 births Malagasy decathletes Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Madagascar World Athletics Championships athletes for Madagascar Malagasy male athletes African Games bronze medalists for Madagascar African Games medalists in athletics (track and field) People from Boeny Athletes (track and field) at the 2007 All-Africa Games Athletes (track and field) at the 2011 All-Africa Games