FOLORUNSO Ayomide

17 Oct 1996
24
Female
ABEOKUTA
 
Nigeria
FIDENZA
 
Italy

Events and Medals

Discipline Event Rank Medal
ATH Athletics Women's 4 x 400m Relay  

Schedule

Change
Start Time Location Event Status
Olympic Stadium - Track
Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

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Olympic Games
YearLocation400m Hurdles4 x 400m
2016Rio de Janeiro, BRASF (56.37)5th (3:27.05)

World Athletics Championships
YearLocation400m Hurdles4 x 400m
2019Doha, QATSF (55.36)Heats (3:27.57)
2017London, GBRSF (56.47)Heats (3:27.81)
2015Beijing, CHN-Heats (3:27.07)

World Relays
YearLocation4 x 400m
2021Chorzow, POL5th (3:32.69)
2019Yokohama, JPN3rd (3:27.74)

European Championships
YearLocation400m Hurdles4 x 400m
2018Berlin, GERSF (55.69)5th (3:28.62)

Diamond League overview - Three best ranks per season and event since 2017
Year400m Hurdles
20211 x 7th
20201 x 8th
20191 x 8th

Diamond League - Ten best performances since 2020
RankYearEventLocationResult
72021400m HurdlesFlorence, ITA56.92
82020400m HurdlesRome, ITA56.58
82019400m HurdlesRome, ITA55.99

World Indoor Championships
YearLocation400m4 x 400m
2018Birmingham, GBRHeats (53.24)5th (3:31.55)


Legend
SF - Semifinal, QF - Quarterfinal, 1R - 1st Round, Qual. - Qualification, QR - Qualification Round, DNF - Did Not Finish, DNS - Did Not Start, DQ - Disqualified, NM - No Mark, [Relay athlete without time] - Did not run in final
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Ayo (fidal.it, 28 Jun 2016)
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Reading, arts. (Facebook page, 12 Jul 2020)
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Athlete, Student
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Medicine, Surgery - University of Parma, Italy
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English, Italian
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Fiamme Oro [Italy]
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Maurizio Pratizzoli [personal], ITA
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She took up athletics at middle school. (fidal.it, 28 Jun 2016)
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She showed promise in athletics, but her mother was against her training because she did not want her to be distracted from her studies. "[Coach] Maurizio Pratizzoli was very persuasive. The pact with my mother was that as long as my grades did not go down I could continue to go training." (fidal.it, 28 Jun 2016)
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US sprinter Allyson Felix. (sport.sky.it, 26 Sep 2019)
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Her mother, and coach Maurizio Pratizzoli. (fidal.it, 28 Jun 2016)
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"Don't give up because a quitter never wins and a winner never quits." (sport.sky.it, 26 Sep 2019)

General Interest

General
TIME MANAGEMENT
She combines her athletics career with studying medicine. "The most challenging part for me is time management. Sometimes I successfully share my time between these two demanding and time consuming events but most of the time I honestly struggle and fail. Being a world class athlete and being a medical student both demand time and energy and I have to choose one over the other at turns, trying not to burn the candle too much at both ends. Initially I put my studies first over things like warm weather training camps but [since 2017] I've had to recheck my priorities and rearrange my schedule accordingly. Since studying is a very important part of evolving as a person, I'm not abandoning it anytime soon and all in all I really love what I am doing no matter how challenging." (european-athletics.org, 05 Sep 2019)

FROM NIGERIA TO ITALY
She was born in Nigeria and moved to Italy at age eight, but was initially shocked by the change of climate. "It was Christmas and it was freezing in Fidenza. I remember that I got sick, and I spent the first year perpetually cold and curled up under a blanket." (fidal.it, 28 Jun 2016)

Legend
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Gold Medal Event
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Silver Medal Event
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Bronze Medal Event
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