The

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n island country of

Seychelles Seychelles (, ; ), officially the Republic of Seychelles (french: link=no, République des Seychelles; Creole: ''La Repiblik Sesel''), is an archipelagic state consisting of 115 islands in the Indian Ocean. Its capital and largest city, V ...

competed at the

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, held from 27 July to 12 August 2012. This was the nation's eighth appearance at the Olympics, except the

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in Seoul because of its partial support to the North Korean boycott. The

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(SOCGA) sent the nation's smallest delegation to the Games. A total of 6 athletes, 4 men and 2 women, competed in four different sports. Four Seychellois athletes received their spots in track and field, and in swimming by wild card entries. Judoka and Olympic qualifier

Dominic Dugasse Dominic Dugasse (born 19 April 1985) is a Seychellois judoka who competed in the -100 kg event at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, where he lost in the first round of the event to Henk Grol of the Netherlands. He was the flag bearer for the Se ...

was the nation's flag bearer at the opening ceremony. For the first time since

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, Seychellois athletes did not qualify in sailing and weightlifting. Seychelles has yet to win its first ever Olympic medal.

Athletics

With no one outright qualifying

Jean-Yves Esparon Jean-Yves Esparon (born 8 August 1994) is a Seychellois sprinter. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he competed in the Men's 200 metres. References External links * Seychellois male sprinters 1994 births Living people Olympic athletes for ...

was picked to compete by the Seychelles Athletics Federation, he had just recently broke the national junior 200 meters record. The 17 year old ran his heat in 21.99 seconds and came in 8th so didn't qualify for the next round. Lissa Labiche received an invite to the Games from the IAAF after winning the gold medal at the African Athletics Championships, at the Olympics she was the youngest female high jumper and finished 10th in her qualifying pool and 20th overall so didn't reach the final. ;Men ;Women

Boxing

Seychelles has qualified one boxer. Allisop won his ticket to the

when he reached the semifinals at the African Olympic qualification tournament held in

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, at the games he was up against Indian boxer

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who had reached the quarterfinals of the

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. Allisop lost all three rounds with the final score being 8-18. ;Men

Judo

Seychelles has qualified 1 judoka Judoka Dugasse automatically qualified through the African Judo Union Continental quota when he amassed over 30 points for his weight division, Dugasse was unlucky to have been drawn against

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bronze medalist

Henk Grol Hindrik Harmannus Arnoldus "Henk" Grol (born 14 April 1985 in Veendam) is a retired Dutch judoka. Judo career Grol competed in the 2007 European Judo Championships in Belgrade, Serbia in the men's under 90 kg, as a replacement for Mark Hui ...

and he was beaten after 1 minute 27 seconds.

Swimming

Both swimmers were invited to compete by FINA, Mangroo finished his heat in 6th place and 50th overall so didn't qualify for the next round, Fanchette was only 14 years old and finished her heat last and 35th overall and didn't advance to the next round. ;Men ;Women

References

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