 |
Evans Marie (born March 5, 1983) is a sprinter from Seychelles. He represented Seychelles at the 2004 Summer Olympics and the 2006 Commonwealth Games.
|
Evans Marie (born March 5, 1983) is a sprinter from Seychelles. He represented Seychelles at the 2004 Summer Olympics and the 2006 Commonwealth Games.
  | This biographical article relating to Seychellois athletics is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
Seychelles, officially the Republic of Seychelles, is an island country and archipelagic state consisting of 155 islands in the Indian Ocean. Its capital and largest city, Victoria, is 1,500 kilometres east of mainland Africa. Nearby island countries and territories include the Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius, and the French overseas departments of Mayotte and Réunion to the south; and Maldives and the Chagos Archipelago to the east. Seychelles is the smallest country in Africa as well as the least populated sovereign African country, with an estimated population of 100,600 in 2022.
United Seychelles is a political party in Seychelles. It publishes a newspaper called The People. It was known as the Seychelles People's Progressive Front until June 2009, when it changed its name to the People's Party. The party changed its name again in November 2018, from the People's Party to United Seychelles.
Sir James Richard Marie Mancham KBE was a Seychellois politician who founded the Seychelles Democratic Party and was the first President of Seychelles from 1976 to 1977.
The Amirante Islands are a group of coral islands and atolls that belong to the Outer Islands of the Seychelles.
Seychelles competed in the Olympic Games for the first time at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, USSR.
The Seychelles was represented at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne by a 32-member strong contingent comprising 22 sportspersons and 10 officials. The 2006 event was the fifth time the nation has entered the Commonwealth Games, previously having won three medals – two silver and one bronze. The Seychelles team competed in seven of the 16 sporting disciplines at the Games, including athletics, boxing, weightlifting, badminton, table tennis, swimming and cycling. Reigning Seychelles Sportslady of the Year, javelin specialist Lindy Leveau-Agricole was chosen to be the team's flag bearer during the opening ceremony.
The Outer Islands or Coralline Seychelles (archipelago) is a collective term for those islands of the Seychelles that are not on the shallow Seychelles Bank which defines the location of the granitic Inner Islands archipelago to the east. The local Seychellois Creole name for the outer islands is Zil Elwannyen Sesel, while the French name is Îles Eloignées. They are all of coral formation, and in the western Indian Ocean.
Seychelles competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, United States.
The Central Bank of Seychelles, is the central bank of Seychelles. It was officially established on 1 January 1983, with the dissolution of its precursor, the Seychelles Monetary Authority.
The Diocese of Saint-Denis de La Réunion is a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction or diocese of the Catholic Church located on the island of Réunion. It is immediately subject to the Holy See. As such, it is not part of an ecclesiastical province, but is a member of the Episcopal Conference of the Indian Ocean. The cathedral church of the diocese is the Cathedral of Saint-Denis located in Saint-Denis.
Articles related to Seychelles include:
Miss World 1969, the 19th edition of the Miss World pageant, was held for the first time at the Royal Albert Hall on 27 November 1969, broadcast for the first time in colour by the BBC. 50 delegates vied for the crown won by Eva Rueber-Staier of Austria. She was crowned by actor Omar Sharif, not by Miss World 1968 winner Penelope Plummer of Australia.
Seychelles competed at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics, the inaugural Youth Olympic Games, held in Singapore from August 14 to August 26, 2010. The nation was represented by the Seychelles Olympic and Commonwealth Games Association, which sent a total of four athletes to compete in four sports. The flagbearer at the opening ceremony for the nation was badminton player Kervin Ghislain. Seychelles' Olympic team was one of the 106 that did not win a single medal at the Games.
Marie Louise Island Airport is an airstrip serving Marie Louise Island in the Seychelles. The runway is along the eastern shore of the island.
The Seychelles women's national football team is the national team of the Seychelles.
Seychellois cuisine is the cuisine of the Republic of Seychelles, an archipelago country consisting of 115 islands. Fish plays a prominent part in country's cuisine because of its location in the Indian Ocean. The Seychelles's cuisine has been influenced by African, British, French, Spanish, Indian and Chinese cuisines.
Glyphodes stolalis is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Achille Guenée in 1854. It is found in Cameroon, the Comoros, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Réunion, Madagascar, the Seychelles, South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal), the Gambia, Uganda, Zimbabwe, China, India, Indonesia (Sulawesi), Sri Lanka, Japan, Taiwan, Thailand and Australia.
North Korea–Seychelles relations(Korean language:세이쉘-조선민주주의인민공화국관계) refers to the current and historical relationship between North Korea and Seychelles. Neither country maintains an embassy in their respective capitals.
The Seychelles Billie Jean King Cup team represents Seychelles in Billie Jean King Cup tennis competition and are governed by the Seychelles Tennis Association. They currently compete in the Europe/Africa Zone of Group III.
