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Place of Birth: Akure, Ondo State, Nigeria
About Aminat Adeniyi
- Aminat Adeniyi (born 21 April 1993) is a Nigerian freestyle wrestler.
- She competed in the women's freestyle 58 kg event at the 2014 Commonwealth Games where she won a gold medal.She has been the National Champion in Wrestling in Nigeria since 2009 till date, a feat has never been achieved by anyone in Nigeria.
- In 2010, she competed in Junior African Championship in Egypt where she won a gold medal.
- She further continued her quest for glory when she competed in Senior African Wrestling Championship in Morocco, in 2012 where she was a silver medalist.
- In 2013, Aminat Adeniyi was also a Nigerian sportswoman representative to the Commonwealth Championship in South Africa, where she won a silver medal.
- She equally participated in Senior African Wrestling Championship in Tunisia, 2014, where she was crowned African champion of her category.
- Her international achievement outside the shore of Africa was in Commonwealth Championship in the same 2014 Glasgow, Scotland, where she won gold.
- She was also as an athlete participated in the Senior African Wrestling Championship in Egypt, 2015, where she completed the tournament as a silver medalist.
- In 2015, the eleventh All African African Games in Congo Brazzaville, she was a Nigerian representative in her category as a wrestler and she won gold.
- A year later, 2016, she competed in the Senior African Wrestling Championship held in Egypt where she won a gold medal.
- During the same year 2016, she won silver medal in an Olympics qualification in Algeria which qualified her as an athlete in Rio 2016 Olympics events.
- She participated in Grandprix of Spain in 2016, where she won bronze medal.
- In 2017, she was an African champion in senior category of wrestling championship held in Morocco.
- In the same 2017, she wrestled at the Wrestling World Championship in France where she became Number eight(8) in the world.
- Also in 2018, she participated in Senior African Wrestling Championship held in Port-Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria and won gold medal.
- She was bestowed with national honour, Member of Order of Niger, MON by the former President Goodluck Jonathan in 2014 in recognition of her grand achievements in sports.
- She was part of Nigerian contingents, as a freestyle wrestler, to the 2019 African Games held in Rabat, Morocco where she defeated Etane Ngollo B.
- from Cameron on a winning streak, without conceding a point during the final encounter, to emerge gold medalist of 62kg category which has made her to be back-to-back champion.
- Education She attended Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko, Ondo State, Nigeria where bagged first degree in Political Science, 2012.
- While she was in university, she was the sporting director of the department of political science between 2010- 2011.
- She was also voted unopposed as the sporting director of the faculty of the social and management sciences of Adekunle Ajasin University between 2011-2012, the post she held till she finished her first degree in 2012.
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