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Full name | Benjamin Kudjow Thomas Boukpeti | ||||||||||||||
Nickname | Bouk | ||||||||||||||
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Born | Lagny-sur-Marne, France | August 4, 1981||||||||||||||
Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||||
Weight | 76 kg (168 lb) | ||||||||||||||
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Sport | Canoe slalom | ||||||||||||||
Event | K1 | ||||||||||||||
Coached by | Jean-Jérôme Perrin | ||||||||||||||
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Benjamin Kudjow Thomas Boukpeti (born August 4, 1981) is a French-born Togolese slalom canoeist who competed at the international level from 2003 to 2012.[1] Competing in three Summer Olympics, Boukpeti won a bronze medal in the K1 event in Beijing in 2008,[2] and remains Togo's first and only Olympic medalist. [3]