Odunayo Adekuoroye Explained

Odunayo Adekuoroye
Fullname:Odunayo Folasade Adekuoroye
Nickname:Pantera dancer
Nationality:Nigerian
Birth Date:10 December 1993
Birth Place:Ilutitun, Ondo State, Nigeria
Weight:51kg (112lb)
Country:Nigeria
Sport:Wrestling
Event:Women's 53 kg

Odunayo Folasade Adekuoroye (born 10 December 1993) is a Nigerian freestyle wrestler.[1] She competed in the women's freestyle 53 kg event at the 2014 Commonwealth Games[2] where she won the gold medal[3] and at the 2015 World Wrestling Championships where she won a bronze medal.[4] [5] She won the silver medal at the women's freestyle 55 kilograms 2017 World Wrestling Championships.[6]

First fight

Adekuoroye participated in Nigeria's 15th National Sport Festival held in Ogun State, where she won the gold medal in the cadet category.[7] In March 2019, Adekuoroye was ranked 4th in the Women's 57 kg wrestling class by United World Wrestling.[8]

Commonwealth experience

She participated in the Commonwealth tournament for the first time in 2010, representing Team Nigeria in India. She won the bronze medal in the 48 kg category at the age of 17 years.

In 2014, she defeated Indian Sehrawat Lalita in the final of the women's freestyle 53 kg category to win her first Commonwealth game gold medal.[9]

In 2018, Adekuoroye participated in the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia, winning her second Commonwealth gold medal in the Women's Freestyle 57 kg weight class, defeating Pooja Dhanda of India in the final.[10]

Adekuoroye won a third Commonwealth Games gold medal at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, defeating India's Anshu Malik in the final.

Career

Adekuoroye picked up a gold medal in 2016 by defeating Russia's Nina Menkenova in the final for 55 kg women's freestyle at the 2016 Golden Grand Prix in Azerbaijan, adding to the bronze medal she won in 2015 at the World Wrestling Championship in Las Vegas.[11] [12]

In 2017, Odunayo Adekuoroye was ranked number one by the United World Wrestling (UWW) at women's freestyle 55 kg category,[13] and went onto win silver medal in 55 kg category after losing narrowly to Japan's Haruna Okuno in the final of 2017 World Wrestling Championship, held in Paris, France.[14]

Odunayo Adekuoroye competed and won gold at the 2019 German Grand Prix Championship. The tournament that was held in Dormagen saw Adekuoroye win the 57 kg weight class of Women's freestyle without losing a point throughout the tournament, just as she defeated Hungarian Anna Szell in the final by 10–0.[15] After which she clinched a bronze medal in the 57 kg class at the Dan Kolov-Nikola Petrov ranking series tournament in Ruse, Bulgaria, 2019.[16]

Following her outing at the German Grand Prix and Dan Kolov-Nikola Petrov ranking series tournament in Ruse, Bulgaria,  Adekuoroye participated in the 2019 African Wrestling Championships, Hammamat, Tunisia, defeating Cameroon's Essone Tiako in 29 seconds in the final of Women freestyle event. She was named the best Female Wrestler of the tournament.[17] In July 2019, she defeated Tetyana Kit of Ukraine 10–0 in the final to win gold in the 57 kg category at Yasar Dogu Ranking series event in Istanbul, Turkey.[18]

In 2020, she won the gold medal in the women's freestyle 57 kg event at the 2020 African Wrestling Championships.[19] [20] In 2021, she won a gold medal at the Baraza Champion of Champions wrestling tournament held in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, Nigeria.[21] In June 2021, she won the gold medal in her event at the 2021 Poland Open held in Warsaw, Poland.[22] [23]

She represented Nigeria at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. She competed in the women's 57 kg event, where she was eliminated in her first match by Anastasia Nichita of Moldova.[24] [25]

In 2022, she won one of the bronze medals in her event at the Matteo Pellicone Ranking Series 2022 held in Rome, Italy.[26] She won the gold medal in the 59 kg event at the 2021 Islamic Solidarity Games held in Konya, Turkey.[27]

She competed in the women's 57kg event at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France.[28]

Rio 2016 Olympic experience

In the 2016 Olympics, she was defeated by Sweden's Sofia Mattsson in the quarter-final.[29]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Glasgow 2014 profile . 16 October 2014 .
  2. News: Commonwealth Games: Adekuoroye, Adeniyi win wrestling gold . 360 nobs website . 31 July 2014 .
  3. News: Foley . Tim . Nigeria impresses on second day of wrestling at Commonwealth Games . United World Wrestling . Switzerland . 30 July 2014 . 16 October 2014.
  4. Web site: 2015 World Weightlifting Championships Results Book. United World Wrestling. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20200530151426/https://unitedworldwrestling.org/sites/default/files/media/document/event/results/results_09_lasvegas_1.pdf. 30 May 2020. 30 May 2020.
  5. News: Omaku . Cephas . Wrestling: Adekuoroye Wins World Championships Bronze, Advances to Rio Games . Information Nigeria website . 10 September 2015 . 10 September 2015.
  6. News: Wrestling: Nigeria's Adekuoroye wins silver at World Championship. Tunde Eludini. Premium Times . 23 August 2017 .
  7. Web site: 15th National Sport Festival Begins in Ogun State. allafrica.com .
  8. Web site: Wrestling: Odunayo Adekuoroye number 4 in the World. 2019-03-12. ACLSports. en-GB. 2019-06-16.
  9. News: Dancing wrestlers celebrate in style. 1 January 2015. BBC. 20 August 2019.
  10. Web site: Commonwealth Games: Team Nigeria wrestlers win gold. 2018-04-13. Vanguard News. en-US. 2019-06-16.
  11. Web site: Adekuoroye becomes first Nigerian wrestler to win World Championships Silver medal. Olus. Yemi. 2017-08-26. MAKING OF CHAMPIONS. en-US. 2019-06-16.
  12. Web site: Golden Grand Prix Final United World Wrestling. unitedworldwrestling.org. 2019-06-16.
  13. Web site: Odunayo Adekuoroye Is World No. 1 Female Wrestler - 55 kg [2017]]. 2017-08-12. PositiveNaija. en-US. 2019-06-16.
  14. Web site: World Championships: Odunayo Adekuoroye wins Africa's first ever Silver medal. Brila. 2017-08-24. Latest Sports News In Nigeria. en-US. 2019-06-16.
  15. Web site: German Grand Prix: it is gold for Adekuoroye. 2019-02-24. ACLSports. en-GB. 2019-06-16.
  16. Web site: Adekuoroye clinches Bronze medal in Bulgaria Ranking Event. 2019-03-05. ACLSports. en-GB. 2019-06-16.
  17. Web site: Adekuoroye best wrestler at African championships. Punch Newspapers. en-US. 2019-06-16.
  18. Web site: Ranking Series: Adekuoroye wins gold, Oborududu bags bronze. 2019-07-14. The Nation Newspaper. en-US. 2019-07-15.
  19. News: Olanowski. Eric. Adekuoroye Climbs to World No. 1 After Winning Fifth African Title. 8 February 2020. United World Wrestling. 9 February 2020.
  20. Web site: 2020 African Wrestling Championships Results Book. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20200616174611/https://unitedworldwrestling.org/sites/default/files/2020-02/results_02_alger.pdf. 16 June 2020. 16 June 2020. United World Wrestling.
  21. News: Ifetoye. Samuel. 18 January 2021. Adekuoroye, Ogbonna, others shine. The Guardian. 4 February 2021.
  22. News: Rowbottom. Mike. 11 June 2021. Adekuoroye scatters Rio 2016 medallists en route to gold at UWW Poland Open. InsideTheGames.biz. 4 July 2021.
  23. Web site: 2021 Poland Open Results Book. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20210704164819/https://uww.org/sites/default/files/2021-06/results_06_warsaw.pdf. 4 July 2021. 4 July 2021. United World Wrestling.
  24. News: 4 August 2021. Tokyo Olympics: Uganda's Peruth Chemutai wins gold as Kenya dominate men's 800m. BBC Sport. 23 August 2021.
  25. Web site: Wrestling Results Book. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20210807164330/https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic-games/resOG2020-/pdf/OG2020-/WRE/OG2020-_WRE_B99_WRE-------------------------------.pdf. 7 August 2021. 8 August 2021. Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
  26. Web site: Matteo Pellicone Ranking Series 2022 Results Book . https://web.archive.org/web/20220625194934/https://cdn.uww.org/s3fs-public/2022-06/final-book-matteo_pellicone.pdf?VersionId=qzK3za9J0rNgcVjK8V3USdzHshFpyOIW . 25 June 2022 . 25 June 2022 . United World Wrestling.
  27. Web site: 2021 Islamic Solidarity Games Results Book . https://web.archive.org/web/20220818181226/https://cdn.uww.org/s3fs-public/2022-08/results_08_konya.pdf?VersionId=XCsODGzAzjjRhgEoc5SPJ7BmwV3S65G1 . 18 August 2022 . 20 August 2022 . United World Wrestling.
  28. Web site: Wrestling Results Book . https://web.archive.org/web/20240811181048/https://olympics.com/OG2024/pdf/OG2024/WRE/OG2024_WRE_B99_WRE-------------------------------.pdf . 11 August 2024 . 12 August 2024 . 2024 Summer Olympics.
  29. Web site: Rio 2016 Olympics: 3 Nigerian women wrestlers crash out – Sports. 2016-08-17. Tribune Online. en-GB. 2019-06-16.

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