Silver for Raforme and Legras in 1998
The 16th Edition of the Commonwealth Games was held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in 1998 (10-20 September), the heavyweight Roland Raforme and light welterweight Jerry Legras settled for a silver medal each.
Their hopes of winning Seychelles its first ever boxing gold medal at these games were dashed by Canadian opponents.

In the 91 Kg final, Raforme fell 13-21 to Simmons who never had the Seychellois fighter in trouble but only that this is power proved too much for the slightly built Raforme, whereas the lighter welterweight Jerry Legras was stopped by Canadian Mike Strange in the final on an 8-16 score.
With the two silver medals, Seychelles finished in the 26th place on the medals table and eighth overall in Boxing.

Weightlifting

Elvis Jeanne snatched 130kg, and clean and jerked 160kg for a total of 290kg to finish 9th out of 17 participants in the 94kg category.

Romeo Simeon snatched 110kg, and clean and jerked 137.5kg for a total of 247.5kg to finish 8th out of 15 participants in the 69kg category.

Steven Baccus who was competing in the 105kg category failed all his three snatch attempts at 135kg and clean and jerked 172.5kg.

Triple Jump

Paul Nioze finished ninth with a distance of 15.83 metres in the triple jump

Long Jump

Danny Beauchamp finished ninth in his heat with a distance of 7.36 metres in the long jump.

Beryl Laramé leapt over a distance of 5.68 metres to finish third from last in the long jump

Javellin

Lindy Leveau recorded a distance of 42.94 metres to finish last in a field of seven participants in the javelin.

5,000m Run

Simon Labiche finished eight in the second 5,000m heat, clocking 14:50:63. He came out 19th overall.

Boxing

Danny Labonte lost 11-14 to Englishman Andrew McLean in the lightweight category.

Jack Bonne lost 5-10 to Canadian Trevo Stewardson in the light middleweight category.

Roland Raforme won by Referee Stopped Contest (RSC) against Australian Simon Patterson in the 5th round of his heavyweight quarterfinal bout. He then blazed past Oceania champion Garth de Silva of New Zealand 15-13 in the semifinal to set up a final showdown with Canadian Mark Simmons. In the 91kg final, he fell 13-21 to Simmons.

Jerry Legras outpointed New Zealander Robert Walker 23-2 in his preliminary round light welterweight fight. Then, he beat Paul McCorsky of Northern Ireland 18-15 in the quarterfinals. In the semifinals, he demolished Australian Casey Jones 31-11. He lost the final 8-16 to Canadian Mike Strange.

Swimming

Jean-Paul Adam won his 100m butterfly heat in 59.56 sceonds but his time was not fast enough to earn him a place in the final. He finished sixth in the 200m butterfly in 2:11.19.

Barnsley Albert clocked 2:01.22 to finish third in the second heat of the 200m freestyle. He then clocked 56.90 seconds in the 100m freestyle to finish sixth.

Pierre-André Adam clocked 1:12.91 to finish 4th in the 100m breaststroke and 4th in the 200m breaststroke in 2:43.85.

OFFICIALS

Antonio Gopal: Head of Delegation
Hugh Adam: Chef De Mission
Eric Savy: Team Manager
Viatcheslav Peregoudov: Swimming Coach
Oleg Kuzmine: Boxing Coach
Edmond Folette: Boxing Referee
Michel Delorie: Weightlifting Referee
Joseph Volcy: Athletics Coach
William Dixie: Weightlifting Coach