Personal information | |
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Full name | Lenient Obia |
National team | Nigeria |
Born | 1 August 1977 |
Height | 1.57 m (5 ft 2 in) |
Weight | 55 kg (121 lb) |
Sport | |
Sport | Swimming |
Strokes | Backstroke |
Lenient Obia (born 1 August 1977) is a Nigerian former swimmer, who specialized in backstroke events. [1] Obia qualified for the women's 100 m backstroke at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by receiving a Universality place from FINA, in an entry time of 1:09.69. [2] She topped the first heat against Honduras' Ana Galindo and Turkmenistan's Yelena Rojkova in 1:09.95, just 0.26 of a second off her entry time. Obia failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed thirty-ninth overall in the preliminaries. [3] [4]
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