Dede Camara

Dede Camara (born July 22, 1991 in Fria ) is a Guinean swimmer . She was a participant in the Olympic Games in 2012.

Life

Athletic career

In Shanghai , Camara took part in the 2011 World Swimming Championships . In the competition she swam the distance 50 m chest in the preliminary round 2 in 44.44 seconds and came in 31st place. She also took part in the 100 m chest competition and swam this distance in the preliminary round 1 in 1: 40.16, here she came in 46th place.

At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London , Camara started in the swimming competition for Guinea. In preliminary 1 in the women's 100 m breaststroke, she swam the distance in 1: 38.54 minutes and did not get any further. She reached the 46th place and did not make it to the semi-finals.

Disappear

On August 11, 2012, one day before the closing ceremony of the Olympic Games, Dede Camara disappeared from the Guinean team's headquarters in London. A few days later it was revealed that she was part of a group of African athletes who had disappeared and were believed to have either gone into hiding or sought asylum in the UK. It is not known if Camara stayed in the UK or returned home after her visa expired, but the UK government revealed in 2015 that 132 athletes and coaches from London had not returned home in 2012 and were still in the UK at the time.

Web links

Dede Camara in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

↑ Swimming - Dede Camara (Guinea). In: the-sports.org. www.the-sports.org, accessed January 7, 2020 .
↑ Olympic Results, Gold Medalists and Official Records. In: olympic.org. International Olympic Committee, 2019, accessed January 7, 2020 .
↑ Swimming at the 2012 London Summer Games: Women's 100 meters Breaststroke. In: sports-reference.com. Olympics at Sports-Reference.com, accessed January 7, 2020 .
^ ^A ^b Six more athletes go missing in London . 2012, ISSN 0307-1235 ( co.uk ).
^ Caroline Wheeler, Political Editor: Commonwealth Games leave Britain with abundance of asylum seekers. In: co.uk. Express.co.uk, 2015, accessed January 7, 2020 .

personal data
SURNAME	Camara, Dede
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Guinean swimmer
DATE OF BIRTH	July 22, 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH	Fria

[the-sports-1] Swimming - Dede Camara (Guinea). In: the-sports.org. www.the-sports.org, accessed January 7, 2020 .

[olympic-2] Olympic Results, Gold Medalists and Official Records. In: olympic.org. International Olympic Committee, 2019, accessed January 7, 2020 .

[sports-reference-3] Swimming at the 2012 London Summer Games: Women's 100 meters Breaststroke. In: sports-reference.com. Olympics at Sports-Reference.com, accessed January 7, 2020 .

[telegraph-4] A ^b Six more athletes go missing in London . 2012, ISSN 0307-1235 ( co.uk ).

[express-5] Caroline Wheeler, Political Editor: Commonwealth Games leave Britain with abundance of asylum seekers. In: co.uk. Express.co.uk, 2015, accessed January 7, 2020 .