Editing Ivory Coast (section)

===Sport===
{{See also|Ivory Coast at the Olympics}}
[[File:Cote d'Iviore NT 2010.jpg|thumb|right|The [[Ivory Coast national football team]]]]

The most popular sport is [[association football]]. The men's [[Ivory Coast national football team|national football team]] has played in the World Cup three times, [[Ivory Coast at the FIFA World Cup|in Germany 2006, in South Africa 2010, and Brazil in 2014]], and has won three times in the [[Africa Cup of Nations]], most recently in the [[2023 Africa Cup of Nations|2023 edition]], when they were the host nation. Côte d'Ivoire has produced many well-known footballers like [[Didier Drogba]] and [[Yaya Touré]]. The women's football team played in the [[2015 FIFA Women's World Cup|2015 Women's World Cup]] in Canada. The country has been the host of several major African sporting events, with the most recent being the [[AfroBasket 2013|2013 African Basketball Championship]]. In the past, the country hosted the [[1984 African Cup of Nations]], in which the Ivory Coast finished fifth, and the [[FIBA Africa Championship 1985|1985 African Basketball Championship]], where the [[Ivory Coast men's national basketball team|national basketball team]] won the gold medal.

400m metre runner [[Gabriel Tiacoh]] won the silver medal in the [[Athletics at the 1984 Summer Olympics – Men's 400 metres|men's 400 metres]] at the 1984 Olympics. The country hosted the [[2017 Jeux de la Francophonie|8th edition]] of [[Jeux de la Francophonie]] in 2017. In the [[sport of athletics]], well known participants include [[Marie-Josée Ta Lou]] and [[Murielle Ahouré]].

[[Rugby union]] is popular, and the [[Ivory Coast national rugby union team|national rugby union team]] qualified to play at the [[1995 Rugby World Cup|Rugby World Cup]] in South Africa in 1995. Ivory Coast has won three African Cup of Nation titles: one in 1992, another one in 2015, and the third one in 2024. Ivory Coast is known for [[Taekwondo]] with well-known competitors such as [[Cheick Sallah Cissé|Cheick Cissé]], [[Ruth Gbagbi]], and [[Firmin Zokou]].