OGUNBANWO Abiola

Nigeria
Swimming
19 Apr 2004
17
Female

Events and Medals

Discipline Event Rank Medal
SWM Swimming Women's 100m Freestyle  

Schedule

Change
Start Time Location Event Status
Tokyo Aquatics Centre
Women's 100m Freestyle - Heat 1
Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

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World Championships
YearLocation100Free200Free4x100Free X4x100Medley X
2019Gwangju, KORH (1:01.31)H (2:15.44)H (DNS)H (4:35.59)

African Games
YearLocation50Free100Free200Free200IndMed4x100Free X4x100Medley X
2019Casablanca, MARH (28.59)H (1:02.16)H (2:17.35)H (2:34.84)7th (3:50.90)H (4:29.05)

World Championships Short Course
YearLocation50Free50Breast
2018Hangzhou, CHNH (27.83)H (35.36)


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
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Athlete
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English
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Woden Valley Swim Club [Canberra, ACT, AUS]
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2018 for Nigeria, World Short Course Championships in Hangzhou, People's Republic of China (canberraweekly.com.au, 18 Jan 2021)
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She began swimming at age nine and began competing at age 11. (canberraweekly.com.au, 18 Jan 2021; citynews.com.au, 14 Jan 2021)
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She took up swimming so she could compete against her older sister. (citynews.com.au, 14 Jan 2021)
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In the lead-up to the 2020 Olympic Games she trained at the FINA Development Centre in Kazan, Russian Federation. (Mad Wave International YouTube channel, 20 May 2021)
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US swimmer Simone Manuel, Jamaican swimmer Alia Atkinson. (canberraweekly.com.au, 18 Jan 2021)
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"I believe that the qualities that make you happy and successful in life and swimming is to be honest with yourself." (Mad Wave International YouTube channel, 20 May 2021)

General Interest

General
ROLE MODEL
She hopes to be a role model for young Muslims who want to swim in Australia. "When I actually started swimming a lot of Muslim people would come up to my dad and say 'Oh, I don't think she should swim, it doesn't really align with our faith that much.' So that's definitely something that I had to overcome throughout the years and take the leap. That's the biggest obstacle I faced, in terms of the backlash, in terms of competitive swimming, and how that aligns with modesty in Islam." (canberraweekly.com.au, 18 Jan 2021)

REPRESENTING NIGERIA
She has both Nigerian and Australian citizenship, and chose to represent Nigeria after being approached by the Nigerian Swimming Federation. She first raced for Nigeria at the 2018 World Short Course Championships in Hangzhou, People's Republic of China. "I want to be that inspiration to young African-Australians to take up swimming." (citynews.com.au, 14 Jan 2021)

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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