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Bello misses out on automatic semi-finals berth

Canoeist, Ayomide Emmanuel Bello has missed out on an automatic semi-finals spot after she finished third in the Heat 3 of the Women’s C-1 200…

Canoeist, Ayomide Emmanuel Bello has missed out on an automatic semi-finals spot after she finished third in the Heat 3 of the Women’s C-1 200 metres on Wednesday.

The former hairdresser qualified for the quarter-finals with a time of 47.539.

In 2019 while competing in Bhopal India, Ayomide Bello made history becoming the first Nigerian to win a gold medal at an International Sailing championship.

She then secured qualification for Tokyo 2020 winning the C1 200m event at the African Olympic qualifiers in Morocco.

She has represented Nigeria in canoe slalom and competed at the 2018 Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires, Argentina after she had begun practising canoe sprint professionally in 2017.

She dropped out of Wesley Girls Secondary School Yaba, after the death of her father and started fishing with her mother to support the family.

Bello, who hails from Arogbo town in Ondo State, is one of the first home-based Nigerian athletes to qualify for Canoeing and Rowing events at the Olympics.

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