Antoinette Guedia Mouafo Explained

Antoinette Guedia Mouafo
Fullname:Antoinette Joyce Guedia Mouafo
Nationality:Cammeroonian
Strokes:freestyle, breaststroke
Birth Date:1995 10, df=yes

Antoinette Joyce Guedia Mouafo (born 21 October 1995)[1] is a Cameroonian swimmer.

She began swimming in 2003, at the age of 8, and became national champion in the women's 100 metre breaststroke category in 2006.[2]

Guedia represented Cameroon at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, and was, at the age of 12, the youngest athlete of any nationality at the Games.[3] Competing in the 50 metre freestyle, she finished fourth in her heat with a time of 33.59 seconds. She had trained in a 22-metre pool in a hotel in Cameroon.[4] [5]

She competed in the women's 50m freestyle at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, finishing with a time of 29.28 seconds in 53rd place in the heats.

Notes and References

  1. http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/ENG/BIO/Athlete/6/243476.shtml Biography
  2. http://www.lejourquotidien.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=293&Itemid=57 "Le météore des bassins"
  3. https://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-Olympics/idUSPEK20033220080814?sp=true "Older rivals, bigger pool for 12-year-old Cameroonian"
  4. http://africa.reuters.com/sport/news/usnBAN549894.html "Beijing's youngest is leader of the laggards"
  5. http://olympics.scmp.com/Article.aspx?id=2683&section=latestnews "Youngest Olympian makes wide-eyed debut"