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| Full name | Esther Tosin Oribamise | ||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Nigerian | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 27 November 2001 Ado Ekiti, Nigeria | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||
| Country | Nigeria | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | Table Tennis | ||||||||||||||
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Esther Tosin Oribamise (born 27 November 2001) is a Nigerian table tennis tennis player. [1]
She competed for Nigeria at local and international table tennis competitions. [2]
Oribamise participated in the table tennis competition at the 2022 Commonwealth Games representing Nigeria. [3]
She also qualified to compete in the Buenos Aires 2018 Youth Olympic Games qualifier in Tunisia by beating Alhodaby Marwa of Egypt to secure the top spot in the competition. [4]
She was part of the Nigerian team alongside Ajoke Ojomu and Alimot Ayinla to secure three bronze medals at the 2015 Egypt Junior and Cadet Table Tennis Open in Cairo. [5]
In 2018, she moved from the rank of 728 to 486 spot in the world according to the International Table Tennis Federation. [6]
She also represented Nigeria at the Africa Junior Championships in Algeria in 2016. [7]
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PARA-TABLE TENNIS: 60 AGUNBIADE Tajudeen, IKPEOYI Ifechukwude, OBAZUAYE Faith, OBIORA Chinenye Faith, OGUNKUNLE Isau, OLUFEMI Alabi Olabiyi, SULE Nasiru. TABLE TENNIS: 67 AMADI Omeh, ARUNA Quadri, BELLO Fatima Atinuke, BODE Abiodun, OFFIONG Edem, OJOMO Ajoke*** , OLAJIDE Adeyemi Omotayo, ORIBAMISE Esther, OSHONAIKE Funke.
