Governance

We are a private company limited by Guarantee. Our members are 29. It includes representatives nominated by NOC Salone’s Athletes Commission, Sports for All Commissions, Medical Commission, Women and Sports Commission, and Sierra Leone’s National Governing Bodies of the Olympic Sports – which currently number 25 Olympic Sports.

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Prince Vandy Sualley

President

Joseph Nyande

Secretary General

Prince Vandy Sualley was elected President of the National Olympic Committee of Sierra Leone on 10^th December 2022. Having experienced sports administration since childhood seeing his father also work for the National Olympic Committee as Administrative Secretary, Prince Sualley spent a decade in other roles within the Executive Council before becoming President of the National Olympic Committee.

His top five priorities are as follows:

Improve and diversify the revenue streams of the National Olympic Committee by establishing partnerships and sponsorships with the private sector and other potential partners
Regulatory reforms and compliance with global best practices in sports governance
Provision of facilities to identify talent and develop future Sierra Leonean Olympians
Winning of medals in all disciplines and retention of elite athletes beyond international competitions
Bridging the gender gap by promoting female leadership in Olympic Sports

MISSION STATEMENT

As the representative body of the Olympic Movement in Sierra Leone, NOC SLE mission is to promote Olympism in the 5 regions and 16 districts of Sierra Leone; and to create the enabling sporting and governance infrastructure for Sierra Leone to have athletes automatically qualify for all competitions at every major game.

HISTORY & ROLE OF NOC

National Olympic Committee of Sierra Leone was established in 1964 and 4 years later at the Mexico 68 Olympic Games Sierra Leone sent its first batch of athletes. Apart from Munich in 1972 and Montreal in 1976, the National Olympic Committee of Sierra Leone has continued to take the Sierra Leonean team to every Olympic Games under the banner of ‘Team Salone’.

Sierra Leone, like many other countries on the African continent, has never won any medal in the Olympic Games. Our best performances were in 1984 when Israel Cole made the quarter-finals of light-middleweight Boxing and in 1996 when Eunice Barber finished fifth in the women’s Heptathlon. She later naturalized and represented France at the Sydney and Athens Games.