Balkissa Ouhoumoudou

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Balkissa Ouhoumoudou
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Born (1983-07-08) 8 July 1983 (age 41)
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Sport Swimming
Strokes Breaststroke

Balkissa Ouhoumoudou (born 8 July 1983) is a Nigerien former swimmer, who specialized in breaststroke events. [1] Ouhoumoudou competed only in the women's 100 m breaststroke at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. She received a ticket from FINA, under a Universality program, without meeting an entry time. [2] She participated in heat one against three other swimmers Mariam Pauline Keita of Mali, 14-year-old Doli Akhter of Bangladesh, and Pamela Girimbabazi of Rwanda. With one swimmer casting out of the race for a no false-start rule (Akhter), and the other for an illegal turn (Girimbabazi), Ouhoumoudou raced to the second seed in a time of 1:42.39, the slowest ever in the heats. Ouhoumoudou failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed forty-first overall in the prelims. [3] [4] [5]

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