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Born | Douala, Cameroon | 20 April 1992||||||||||||||
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Country | Cameroon Great Britain | ||||||||||||||
Sport | Weightlifting | ||||||||||||||
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Madias Dodo Nzesso Ngake (born 20 April 1992 in Douala, Cameroon) is a British-Cameroonian weightlifter. [1] She competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the -75 kg event and won a bronze medal. in 2024 at the age of 32 she transferred allegiance to Great Britain and England, where she had been living for some years. In December of that year she won a silver medal in the snatch at the 87kg class at the 2024 World Weightlifting Championships.
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