RADJI Nafissath

SWIMMING

Youth Olympic Games

Year	Location	50Free	50Back
2018	Buenos Aires, ARG	H (31.93)	H (37.89)

World Championships

Year	Location	50Free	50Back	50Fly
2019	Gwangju, KOR	H (30.85)	H (36.01)	-
2017	Budapest, HUN	H (32.53)	-	H (42.12)

African Games

Year	Location	50Free	50Back
2019	Casablanca, MAR	H (29.86)	H (37.43)

African Championships

Year	Location	50Free	100Free	50Back
2018	Algiers, ALG	H (32.29)	H (1:15.72)	H (38.92)

World Championships Short Course

Year	Location	50Free	50Breast	4x50Medley X
2018	Hangzhou, CHN	H (30.40)	H (41.13)	H (2:13.02)

Legend
Free - Freestyle, Back - Backstroke, Breast - Breaststroke, Fly - Butterfly, IndMed - Individual Medley, SF - Semifinal, H - Heats, DNS - Did Not Start, M - Men, W - Women, X - Mixed, DSQ - Disqualified, [Relay athlete without time] - Did not swim in final

MARATHON SWIMMING

African Championships

Year	Location	5km
2018	Algiers, ALG	OTL

Legend
X - Mixed, DNF - Did Not Finish, DNS - Did Not Start, DSQ - Disqualified, TR - Team Relay, TTT - Team Time Trial

Nafifi, Nafi, Naf (Athlete, 18 Jul 2021)

Photography, drawing, travelling, reading. (Athlete, 18 Jul 2021)

Student

Institut Africain de Management [IAM], Dakar, SEN

English, French

Club des Nageurs de Dakar et Goree [SEN] / FINA Development Centre [SEN]

Mohamed Diop [Club des Nageurs de Dakar et Goree]; Malick Fall [FINA Development Centre]

She has represented Benin in open water swimming and competed in the 5km event at the 2018 African Championships in Algiers, Algeria. (SportsDeskOnline, 19 Jul 2021)

She began swimming at age eight in Accra, Ghana. (Athlete, 18 Jul 2021)

She took up swimming to help with her asthma. (Athlete, 18 Jul 2021)

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (Instagram profile, 11 Jul 2021)

She trains at the FINA Development Centre in Dakar, Senegal. (Athlete, 18 Jul 2021)

Competing in 50m backstroke and freestyle at the 2018 Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and being selected to compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (Athlete, 18 Jul 2021; Instagram profile, 11 Jul 2021)

US swimmer Simone Manuel. (Athlete, 18 Jul 2021)

Ghanaian swimmer Abeiku Jackson. (Athlete, 18 Jul 2021)

"Before a race, I stay focused while listening to my favourite music and, when I am in front of my lane, I stare right at the wall at the other end and tell myself, 'I can do it'." (Athlete, 18 Jul 2021)

"If you aren't going all the way why go at all?" (Athlete, 18 Jul 2021)

She was named as the flag bearer for Benin during the closing ceremony of the 2018 Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (insidethegames.biz, 01 Jan 2018)