Ola Buwaro

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Ola Buwaro
Personnel
birthday December 23, 2001
place of birth Talinding Kunjang ,  Gambia
Women
Years station Games (goals) 1
2014 to 2018 Red Scorpions
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
2017/2018 Gambia, U-17 selection
since 2015 Gambia
1 Only league games are given.

Ola Buwaro (born December 23, 2001 in Talinding Kunjang ) is a Gambian athlete and soccer player.

Life

Buwaro attended Latrikuna Yiringanya Lower Basic School and Muslim Senior Secondary School .

athletics

In 2016 she took part in the championships of the West African Economic Community (ECOWAS). The following year she won the gold medal over 200 meters at the Junior Continental Championships. In June 2018 she was unable to compete in the ECOWAS U-20 Athletics Championship in Accra (Ghana) to defend her title due to problems with arrival .

She was the flag bearer of the Gambian team at the 2018 Commonwealth Games .

Since the Gambian Athletics Association (GAA) asked her to decide on a sport in the summer of 2018, she decided to stop playing football.

In 2019 she was nominated for Sportswoman of the Year at the National Sports Awards of the Sports Journalists' Association of The Gambia (SJAG).

Soccer

In addition to athletics, she also worked as a soccer player. She played for her school team, where she was named Best Player at the 2017 GTBank Principal's Cup . At least from 2014 she also played for the women's soccer club Red Scorpions FC .

From October 2017 she played in the newly formed Gambian U-17 national soccer team . In December 2017 she was the team captain in qualifying for the 2018 U-17 Women's World Cup . In the preliminary round she was able to score one of the goals in a 3-0 win against Sierra Leone. In the following first round, the team was eliminated against Ghana.

At the end of February and May 2018, she played for the regular women's national team in two friendly matches against Guinea-Bissau and Mali.

Participation in competitions (athletics)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Athletics | Athlete Profile: Ola BUWARO - Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games. Retrieved May 18, 2019 .
  2. ^ Sulayman Bah: Gambia: African Junior Champ Buwaro Disappointed Over Failure to Travel to Defend Title . In: FOROYAA Newspaper (Serrekunda) . June 27, 2018 ( allafrica.com [accessed May 18, 2019]).
  3. ↑ CGTN Africa: The Gambia launches probe over missing athletes. In: CGTN Africa. Retrieved May 18, 2019 (American English).
  4. ↑ 2019 SJAG National Sports Award Nominees Unveiled. Retrieved May 18, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Guaranty Trust Bank Principals Cup heats up.Retrieved May 18, 2019 .
  6. ^ Muslim, Essau crown Champion of GTBank principals cup. Retrieved May 18, 2019 .
  7. ^ Gambia: Red Scorpions Win Women's League. Retrieved May 18, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Gambia women U-17 team disgrace interior in friendly. Retrieved May 18, 2019 .
  9. ↑ CAF - Competitions - African Qualifiers FIFA U-17 WWC-URUGUAY 2018 - Match Details. Retrieved May 18, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Gambia / Sierra Leone: 2018 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers - Sierra Leone Pair Against Gambia. Retrieved March 29, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Gambia hammers Bissau 4-1 in international friendly. Retrieved May 18, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Road to Ghana 2018: Queen Scorpions lines up Mali friendly. Retrieved May 18, 2019 .
  13. ^ Gambia commemorates Olympic Day. Retrieved May 18, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Paralympic athlete Demba Jarju wins July 22nd Marathon. Retrieved May 18, 2019 .
  15. ↑ 400 Meters Summary | 3rd Youth Olympic Games | iaaf.org. Retrieved May 18, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Buwaro, Ola
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Gambian athlete and soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 2001
PLACE OF BIRTH Talinding Kunjang