Personal information | |
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Full name | M'mah Soumah |
Nationality | Guinean |
Born | Conakry, Guinea | 10 May 1985
Height | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) |
Weight | 52 kg (115 lb) |
Sport | |
Sport | Judo |
Event | 52 kg |
M'mah Soumah (born 10 May 1985 in Conakry) is a Guinean judoka who competed in the women's half-lightweight category. [1] She picked up a bronze medal in the 52-kg division at the 2004 African Judo Championships in Tunis, Tunisia, and represented her nation Guinea at the 2004 Summer Olympics.
Soumah qualified as a lone female athlete and judoka for the Guinean squad in the women's half-lightweight class (52 kg) at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by granting a tripartite invitation from the International Judo Federation. She lost her opening match to Portugal's Telma Monteiro, who scored an ippon victory and quickly subdued her on the tatami with a seoi nage (shoulder throw) at eighteen seconds. [2] [3] [4]
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