Ayomide Folorunso
Ayomide Temilade Oluwatoyosi Folorunso is a Nigerian-Italian athlete specialising in the 400 metres hurdles. She competed in the 4 × [400 metres relay] at the 2015 [World Championships in Athletics|2015 World Championships] in Beijing.
Biography
Her family is originally from Nigeria, but since 2004 Ayomide has settled with her parents, mother Mariam and father Emmanuel, a mining geologist, in Fidenza. She failed to wear the Italy [national athletics team|azzurro] at the 2013 [World Youth Championships in Athletics] despite having obtained the minimum in five specialties, because she received her Italian passport a few days after the world championship, therefore she is member of the Italy national athletics team.National records
- 400 metres hurdles: 53.89 at the 2023 World Championships semi-finals in Budapest, Hungary, 22 August 2023.
- 4x400 metres relay indoor: 3:31.55 - current holder with Chiara Bazzoni, Raphaela Lukudo, Maria Enrica Spacca
Achievements
Circuit performances
Personal bests
;Outdoor- 100 metres: 11.83 – Rubiera, Italy, 13 September 2016
- 200 metres: 23.53 – Casalmaggiore, Italy, 12 September 2016
- 400 metres: 52.25 – Modena, Italy, 5 May 2016
- 400 metres hurdles: 53.89 – Budapest, Hungary, 22 August 2023
- 200 metres: 23.86 – Padua, Italy, 2016
- 400 metres: 52.97 – Madrid, Spain, 2017
National titles
- Italian Athletics Championships
- *400 metres hurdles: 2016, 2019
- Italian Athletics Indoor Championships
- *400 metres: 2016, 2017, 2020