Ayomide Folorunso

Ayomide Folorunso
Ayomide Folorunso in Brixen 2016
Full name	Ayomide Temilade Oluwatoyosi Folorunso
nation	Italy Nigeria
birthday	17th October 1996 (age 23)
place of birth	Abeokuta , Nigeria
size	170 cm
Weight	55 kg
Career
discipline	400 meter hurdles
Best performance	54.75 s
society	Gruppo Sportivo Fiamme Oro
status	active
Medal table
European Indoor Championships 0 × 0 × 1 × Mediterranean Games 1 × 1 × 0 × Summer Universiade 2 × 0 × 0 × U23 European Championships 1 × 0 × 0 × U20 European Championships 0 × 1 × 1 ×
European Indoor Championships bronze Glasgow 2019 4 × 400 m  Mediterranean Games gold Tarragona 2018 4 × 400 m silver Tarragona 2018 400 m hurdles  Universiade gold Taipei 2017 400 m hurdles gold Naples 2019 400 m hurdles  U23 European Championships gold Bydgoszcz 2017 400 m hurdles  Junior European Championships silver Eskilstuna 2015 4 × 400 m bronze Eskilstuna 2015 400 m hurdles
last change: July 31, 2019

Ayomide Temilade Oluwatoyosi Folorunso (born October 17, 1996 in Abeokuta ) is an Italian athlete of Nigerian origin who specializes in the 400-meter hurdles.

Athletic career

Ayomide Folorunso gained her first international experience at the Junior World Championships 2014 in Eugene , where she finished seventh with 58.34 s. The following year she won the bronze medal in the hurdles in 58.44 s and the silver medal in the Italian 4 x 400 meter relay in 3: 37.45 min at the 2015 European Athletics Junior Championships in Eskilstuna, Sweden . This gave her a place in the relay for the World Championships in Beijing , where she was eliminated with 3: 27.07 min in the lead . In 2016 she took part in the European Championships in Amsterdam , where she was fourth in 55.50 s. She qualified for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , where she reached the semi-finals and was eliminated there with 56.37 s. In addition, she reached sixth place in the final with the Italian relay in 3: 27.05 minutes .

In 2017 she took part with the relay at the European Indoor Championships in Belgrade and narrowly missed a medal with the Italian relay in 3: 32.87 minutes. At the U23 European Championships in Bydgoszcz , Poland , she won the gold medal in the individual competition in 55.82 seconds and finished fifth with the Italian relay in 3: 33.31 minutes. Then she reached at the World Championships in London , the semi-finals , where they retired s with 56.47. Even with the season, she could not qualify for the final with 3: 27.81 min . Two weeks later, she won the Summer Universiade in Taipei in 55.63 seconds and could not finish the final run with the 4 x 100 meter relay. In 2018 she took part in the 400-meter run at the World Indoor Championships in Birmingham and was eliminated there with 53.24 s in the first round. In addition, she finished fifth with the relay in 3: 31.55 minutes. At the end of June she won the Italian relay in 3: 28.08 min at the Mediterranean Games in Tarragona and won the silver medal in 55.44 s behind her compatriot Yadisleidy Pedroso . She then took part again in the European Championships in Berlin and was eliminated there with 55.69 s in the semifinals. In addition, she was fifth with the season in 3: 28.62 min.

In 2019 she won the bronze medal behind Poland and the United Kingdom at the European Indoor Championships in Glasgow with the relay in 3: 31.90 min. In addition, she reached the semi-finals in the individual competition over 400 meters, in which she was eliminated with 57.96 s. Then she came in third place with the Italian relay at the World Relays in Yokohama in 3: 27.74 minutes. In July she defended her title at the Student World Games in Naples , where she improved her best to 54.75 s.

In 2016 and 2019 Folorunso became Italian champion in the 400-meter hurdles and in 2016 and 2017 also indoor champion over 400 meters. She is a student at the University of Parma .

Personal best

• 400 meters: 52.25 s on May 5, 2018 in Modena
  • 400 meters (hall): 52.56 s, January 31, 2020 in Karlsruhe
• 400 meter hurdles: 54.75 s, July 10, 2019 in Naples

Web links

Commons : Ayomide Folorunso  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Ayomide Folorunso in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Ayomide Folorunso in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Result list of the European Championships in Amsterdam 2016
2. ^ Result list of the U23 European Championships in Bydgoszcz 2017
3. ↑ Bob Ramsak: Folorunso and Ivanov the day 3 standouts at World University Games ( English ) IAAF. September 11, 2019. Accessed July 31, 2019.