Lassana Palenfo

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Lassana Palenfo
Director of Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa
Incumbent
Assumed office 2005
Personal details
Born	(1941-01-25) January 25, 1941 (age 83) Ivory Coast

Lassana Palenfo (born January 25, 1941, in Ivory Coast) is an Ivorian military general. He has held various offices in several international sporting organisations. He was the director of the Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa (2005-2018),^[1] and a member of the International Olympic Committee (2000–2012), and has been the director of the National Olympic Committee of Ivory Coast since 1999, director of the African Judo Union since 1990^[2] and vice-president of the International Judo Federation since 1990. He was awarded the Olympic Order in Silver in 2012.^[1] In his whole life, he practiced multiple sports like swimming, judo (black belt, 4th dan) and football (schools championships). In July 2013, during the elective General Assembly of the Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa, he was reelected for a 3rd mandate in a row as the ANOCA president.