Frankie Fredericks to run outreach workshop here |02 July 2015

Four-time Olympic silver medallist Frankie Fredericks will be here next week to conduct an outreach workshop on the International Olympic Committee’s athlete career programme in cooperation with Adeco.

Seychelles athletes who have competed at the Olympic Games and other high level competitions at regional, continental and world levels will be taking part in the workshop from July 9 at the Football House from 9am to 4pm.

Other athletes who wish to take part in the workshop are asked to contact Hebetty Alcindor on telephone number 2526539.

In his career Fredericks ran under 20 seconds in the 200m 24 times, a record only beaten by the current 100m and 200m Olympic and world champion, Usain Bolt.

He made history as the first Namibian to win Olympic and world medals, and completed the trio at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria.

In 1991 Fredericks became the first sprinter outside the United States to win the 100m and 200m at the American collegiate championships.

The following year, a 24-year-old Fredericks would become Namibia's first Olympic medallist at Barcelona 1992. He left Spain with two silver medals in the 100m and 200m.

He then won 100m gold at the 1993 World Championships in Stuttgart. Two more silver Olympic medals would follow in Atlanta 1996, followed by silvers in the 1998 Commonwealth Games and 1997 World Championships in Athens.

At the age of 34, he returned to the world stage in 2002, following a two-year period recovering from an Achilles injury that had looked to end his career. He set about winning three titles in less than two weeks. It would begin at the Commonwealth Games in Manchester 2002.

One week later in the African Championships in Tunisia, Fredericks completed a 100m and 200m double to finish his athletics career on a high.

He is member of the International Olympic Committee and set up the Frank Fredericks Foundation which gives scholarships to the promising athletes of Namibia.