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Paul Bamela Engo (21 October 1931 – 26 April 2010) was a Cameroonian diplomat, judge and triple jumper who represented Nigeria at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne. Engo was born in Ebolowa, Cameroon to the family of Fredrick Engo Mimbe and Elizabeth Ekoto Nku’u. His mother died when he was six and the family moved to Warri, Nigeria where his father worked. Engo attended Edo College, Benin and studied law at Middle Temple Inn, London. He was affiliated with the London Amateur Athletic Club prior to the Olympics. In Melbourne Engo qualified for the final round and improved on his previous attempts with a final round leap of 15.03m. Engo also finished ninth in the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games triple jump.After he finished studies in U.K. and qualified as a lawyer, he starte

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  • Paul Bamela Engo (* 5. Oktober 1931 in Südkamerun; † 26. April 2010 in Yaoundé) war ein aus Kamerun stammender Jurist. Er war von 1996 bis 2008 Richter am Internationalen Seegerichtshof. Zuvor war er als Dreispringer aktiv und nahm für Nigeria an den Olympischen Spielen 1956 in Melbourne teil, wo er den 17. Platz belegte. Nach seiner Anwaltszulassung am Inner Temple arbeitete Engo als Anwalt der britischen Krone in Lagos, Nigeria, sowie im südlichen Kamerun. Von 1961 bis 1969 war er Mitglied der Federal Judicial Commission Kameruns. Er vertrat sein Land 1963 in einem Rechtsstreit mit Großbritannien vor dem Internationalen Gerichtshof. Von 1964 bis 1968 war er im auswärtigen Dienst in den Botschaften in Bonn und Washington, D.C. tätig, bevor er in die Ständige Vertretung seines Landes bei den Vereinten Nationen wechselte. Zudem nahm er von 1965 bis 1990 als Ständiger Vertreter Kameruns an den Sitzungen der Generalversammlung der Vereinten Nationen und der 3. UN-Seerechtskonferenz teil. (de)
  • Paul Bamela Engo (21 October 1931 – 26 April 2010) was a Cameroonian diplomat, judge and triple jumper who represented Nigeria at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne. Engo was born in Ebolowa, Cameroon to the family of Fredrick Engo Mimbe and Elizabeth Ekoto Nku’u. His mother died when he was six and the family moved to Warri, Nigeria where his father worked. Engo attended Edo College, Benin and studied law at Middle Temple Inn, London. He was affiliated with the London Amateur Athletic Club prior to the Olympics. In Melbourne Engo qualified for the final round and improved on his previous attempts with a final round leap of 15.03m. Engo also finished ninth in the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games triple jump.After he finished studies in U.K. and qualified as a lawyer, he started work at the Federal Ministry of Justice, Lagos. Later he returned to Cameroon where he joined the foreign service and rose to the position of the Ambassador to the United Nations in New York. He was also a justice of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea. (en)
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  • Paul Bamela Engo (* 5. Oktober 1931 in Südkamerun; † 26. April 2010 in Yaoundé) war ein aus Kamerun stammender Jurist. Er war von 1996 bis 2008 Richter am Internationalen Seegerichtshof. Zuvor war er als Dreispringer aktiv und nahm für Nigeria an den Olympischen Spielen 1956 in Melbourne teil, wo er den 17. Platz belegte. (de)
  • Paul Bamela Engo (21 October 1931 – 26 April 2010) was a Cameroonian diplomat, judge and triple jumper who represented Nigeria at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne. Engo was born in Ebolowa, Cameroon to the family of Fredrick Engo Mimbe and Elizabeth Ekoto Nku’u. His mother died when he was six and the family moved to Warri, Nigeria where his father worked. Engo attended Edo College, Benin and studied law at Middle Temple Inn, London. He was affiliated with the London Amateur Athletic Club prior to the Olympics. In Melbourne Engo qualified for the final round and improved on his previous attempts with a final round leap of 15.03m. Engo also finished ninth in the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games triple jump.After he finished studies in U.K. and qualified as a lawyer, he starte (en)
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  • Paul Bamela Engo (de)
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