Edwige Bancole

Edwige Bancole
Personal information
Nationality	Beninese
Sport
Sport	Sprinting
Event	100 metres

Last updated October 18, 2025

Edwige Bancole is a Beninese sprinter. She competed in the women's 100 metres at the 1980 Summer Olympics.^[1] She was the first woman to represent Benin at the Olympics.^[2]

References

↑ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Edwige Bancole Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 4 July 2017.
↑ "First female competitors at the Olympics by country". Olympedia. Retrieved 8 June 2020.

This biographical article relating to Beninese athletics and track and field is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.

[SportsRef-1] Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Edwige Bancole Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 4 July 2017.

[2] "First female competitors at the Olympics by country". Olympedia. Retrieved 8 June 2020.

[1]

[2]