ADEKUOROYE Odunayo Folasade

Nigeria
Wrestling
10 Dec 1993
27
Female
Olympic Scholarship
AKURE
 
Nigeria

Events and Medals

Discipline Event Rank Medal
WRE Wrestling Women's Freestyle 57kg 13

Schedule

Change
Start Time Location Event Status
Followed by 		Makuhari Messe Hall A Mat B
Women's Freestyle 57kg 1/8 Final
#182
MDA
NICHITA ANICHITA Anastasia
2
VFA
NGR
ADEKUOROYE OFADEKUOROYE Odunayo Folasade
8
Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

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Olympic Games
RankEventYearLocation
16Freestyle 53kg2016Rio de Janeiro, BRA

World Championships
RankEventYearLocation
2Freestyle 55kg2017Paris, FRA
3Freestyle 57kg2019Nur-Sultan, KAZ
3Freestyle 53kg2015Las Vegas, NV, USA
9Freestyle 57kg2018Budapest, HUN
14Freestyle 51kg2011Istanbul, TUR

African Games
RankEventYearLocation
1Freestyle 57kg2019El Jadida, MAR

African Championships
RankEventYearLocation
1Freestyle 57kg2020Algiers, ALG
1Freestyle 57kg2019Hammamet, TUN
1Freestyle 57kg2018Port Harcourt, NGR
1Freestyle 55kg2017Marrakech, MAR

Ranking Series
RankEventYearLocation
1Freestyle 57kg2021Warsaw, POL
1Freestyle 57kg2020Rome, ITA
1Freestyle 57kg2019Istanbul, TUR
3Freestyle 57kg2019Ruse, BUL
9Freestyle 57kg2018Budapest, HUN
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The Dancer [given to her when she began dancing, singing and chanting as part of her pre-match routine]. (olympicchannel.com, 21 May 2020)
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Singing, driving, reading. (naijaloaded.com.ng, 26 Jan 2020)
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Athlete
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Sports Science - Federal University of Technology, Akure, NGR
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English
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Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries [MFM] [Nigeria]
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Akuh Purity [personal, national]; Victor Kodei [national]
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Her niece Mercy has competed in wrestling at national junior level in Nigeria. (unitedworldwrestling.org, 10 Feb 2018)
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She began wrestling while attending Adegrola Memorial Grammar School in Akure, Nigeria. (Athlete, 29 Jul 2014)
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"At first, I didn't like to wrestle at all. I didn't even know it as a sport as sprinting is all I knew. When I went to the stadium to learn how to run and began preparing for a school competition only the first and second would be picked. I placed second but they dropped me and picked the winner. The wrestling coach [Akuh Purity] saw me crying and said if I wanted to wrestle, he would take me to the same competition. I decided to follow him because I desperately wanted to travel. Luckily, I won a gold medal in the competition. I ended up loving wrestling passionately." (olympicchannel.com, 21 May 2020; naijaloaded.com.ng, 26 Jan 2020; WrestlingTV YouTube channel, 13 Sep 2019)
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To win a gold medal at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (olympicchannel.com, 21 May 2020)
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Winning gold at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland. (olympicchannel.com, 21 May 2020)
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Canadian freestyle wrestler Daniel Igali, US freestyle wrestler Jordan Burroughs. (Athlete, 29 Jul 2014; olympicchannel.com, 21 May 2020)
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Coach Akuh Purity. (olympicchannel.com, 21 May 2020)
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She has incorporated dancing, singing and chants as part of her pre-match routine since the final of the 53kg freestyle event at 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland, (flowrestling.org, 09 Sep 2015; olympicchannel.com, 21 May 2020)
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"When you take this life too seriously, you are making things difficult for yourself. That's why you have to find your happiness. I am always trying to be happy and smiling most of the time." (olympicchannel.com, 21 May 2020)

General Interest

General
EARLY DAYS
As a girl she kept her wrestling career a secret from her parents, and even stayed away from home for four days to represent her secondary school at the Okada Games in Nigeria without telling them. "What attracted me to the sport was the opportunity to travel, which was one of my dreams as a young girl. Meanwhile at that time, my parents were looking for me and they reported that I was missing at the police station. I later called to tell them I was fine but my angry parents told me they had disowned me and warned me not to come back home. My coach [Akuh Purity] and some other people then followed me to beg my parents to accept me back. My coach also promised my parents that he would take good care of me, and that's how my wrestling career began. This sport has given me a name and has taken me out of poverty. When I began to live comfortably I bought a car for my dad, and I opened a shop for my mum." (olympicchannel.com, 21 May 2020; naijaloaded.com.ng, 26 Jan 2020; WrestlingTV YouTube channel, 13 Sep 2019)

Legend
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Gold Medal Event
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Silver Medal Event
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Bronze Medal Event
VFA:
Victory by fall
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