Offiong Edem

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Offiong Edem Table tennis player
Nation: NigeriaNigeria Nigeria
Date of birth: December 31, 1986
Place of birth: Calabar
Playing hand: Right
How to play: Shakehand, attack
Current world rankings : 165 Template: Infobox table tennis player / maintenance / local value
Best world ranking : 146 (May 2019)

Offiong Edem (born December 31, 1986 in Calabar ) is a Nigerian table tennis player . She took part in three Olympic Games .

Career

Offiong Edem often played soccer in her childhood, but eventually decided to play table tennis.

In 2004, 2012 and 2016 she qualified to participate in the Olympic Games. In 2004 she only played in the doubles competition. Here she was defeated by the Russians Galina Melnik / Oksana Fadejewa at the side of Cecilia Otu Offiong . In 2012 and 2016 she was only qualified for the individual competition. In 2012 she was eliminated in the preliminary round against Dina Meshref (Egypt). In 2016 she won against Sally Yee (Fiji) and then lost to Viktoria Pavlovich (Belarus).

Offiong Edem achieved some successes at the African Championships . In 2007 she won gold in doubles with Cecilia Otu Offiong, in 2010 she was third with Nigeria's team, and in 2015 she reached the final in the team competition.

At the Africa Games 2007 she was first in doubles with Cecilia Otu Offiong. In 2011 she won singles, doubles (with Cecilia Otu Offiong) and mixed (with Segun Toriola ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Edem Offiong: ranking history (ITTF) (accessed October 27, 2019)
  2. ↑ a b Rio 2016 Olympic Games # TABLE TENNIS - PLAYER BIOGRAPHIES WOMEN (English), page 32 (W_Bio_Rio2016.pdf) (PDF; 1.9 MB) (accessed October 27, 2019)
  3. ↑ Offiong Edem at the Commonwealth Games 2010 (accessed on 27 October 2019)
personal data
SURNAME Edem, Offiong
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nigerian table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Calabar