Mamadou Samba Bah Explained

Mamadou Samba Bah
Nationality:	Guinea
Sport:	Judoka
Event:	-73kg
Birth Date:	13 May 1995

Mamadou Samba Bah (born 13 May 1995) is a Guinean judoka who competes in the under 73kg category.

Selected to compete at the delayed 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, he was drawn in his first match against Tsend-Ochiryn Tsogtbaatar who would go on and win the bronze medal for Mongolia.^[1] As a Guinean competitor he had to be granted special dispensation to compete because he missed the official weigh-in after the Guinean federation initially pulled their athletes from the Games over fears around the COVID-19 pandemic, before rescinding that decision after the games had started.^{[2] [3]}

Notes and References

1. Web site: Judo - BAH Mamadou Samba. dead. 2021-07-24. Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. en-us. 2021-07-26. https://web.archive.org/web/20210726060813/https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic-games/en/results/judo/athlete-profile-n1425792-bah-mamadou-samba.htm.
2. Web site: Tokyo Olympics: judoka Samba Bah will compete 1 hour from Conakry. guineenews.org.
3. Web site: Guinea reverses decision to pull out of Tokyo Olympics. apnews.com.