Ayomide Bello
Nigerian canoeist (born 2002)
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Ayomide Emmanuel Bello (born 4 April 2002), also known as Ayomide Powei Bello, is a Nigerian canoeist. She competed in the women's C-1 200 metres event at the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan.[2] She also represented Nigeria at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France.[3][4][5] Bello was Nigeria's first female canoeist at the Olympics.[6][7][8]
- Ayomide Emmanuel Bello
- Ayomide Powei Bello
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| Born | 4 April 2002 Epe, Lagos State, Nigeria[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 145 cm (4 ft 9 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 51 kg (112 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Nigeria | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Canoe sprint, Canoe slalom | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | C-1 & C-2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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In 2018, she won two gold medals at the African Youth Games.[9] In that same year, she represented Nigeria at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics and competed in four events: the girls' C1 sprint, girls' C1 slalom, girls' K1 sprint and girls' K1 slalom. She did not win a medal in these events.
She competed at the 2019 African Games and won the gold medals in the C-1 200 metres and C-1 500 metres events.[10] She also won the gold medals in the C-2 200 metres and C-2 500 metres events.[10] As a result the country finished second in the canoeing medal table at the 2019 African Games and she also qualified for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in the C-1 200 metres.[11][9]
She also secured Olympic qualification at the Canoe Sprint African Paris 2024 qualifier in Nigeria. she teamed up with Beauty Akinaere Otuedo to finish last in Final B in the French and reached the quarter-final of the C1 200l.[12]
