Ayomide Temilade Oluwatoyosi Folorunso (born 17 October 1996) 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 Beijing.
Career 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 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 (Birmingham, England, 4 March 2018) - current holder with Chiara Bazzoni, Raphaela Lukudo, Maria Enrica Spacca
Achievements Representing 2014World Junior ChampionshipsEugene, United States7th400 m hurdles58.342015European Junior ChampionshipsEskilstuna, Sweden3rd400 m hurdles58.442nd4 × 400 m relay3:37.45World ChampionshipsBeijing, China9th (h)4 × 400 m relay3:27.072016European ChampionshipsAmsterdam, Netherlands4th400 m hurdles55.50Olympic GamesRio de Janeiro, Brazil19th (sf)400 m hurdles56.376th4 × 400 m relay3:27.052017European Indoor ChampionshipsBelgrade, Serbia4th4 × 400 m relay3:32.87European U23 ChampionshipsBydgoszcz, Poland1st400 m hurdles55.825th4 × 400 m relay3:33.31UniversiadeTaipei, Taiwan1st400 m hurdles55.634th (h)4 × 100 m relay44.5612018World Indoor ChampionshipsBirmingham, United Kingdom18th (h)400 m53.245th4 × 400 m relay3:31.55Mediterranean GamesTarragona, Spain2nd400 m hurdle55.441st4 × 400 m relay3:28.08European ChampionshipsBerlin, Germany8th (sf)400 m hurdles55.695th4 × 400 m relay3:28.622019European Indoor ChampionshipsGlasgow, United Kingdom18th (sf)400 m57.963rd4 × 400 m relay3:31.90World RelaysYokohama, Japan3rd4 × 400 m relay3:27.74UniversiadeNaples, Italy1st400 m hurdles54.75World ChampionshipsDoha, Qatar13th (sf)400 m hurdles55.369th (h)4 × 400 m relay3:27.572021World RelaysChorzów, Poland5th4 × 400 m relay3:32.692022World ChampionshipsEugene, United States10th (sf)400 m hurdles54.347th4 × 400 m relay3:26.45European ChampionshipsMunich, Germany7th400 m hurdles55.912023European Indoor ChampionshipsIstanbul, Turkey2nd4 × 400 m relay3:28.61World ChampionshipsBudapest, Hungary6th400 m hurdles54.196th (h)4 × 400 m relay3:23.862024World Indoor ChampionshipsGlasgow, United Kingdom18th (h)400 m53.15European ChampionshipsRome, Italy5th400 m hurdles55.20Olympic GamesParis, France16th (sf)400 m hurdles54.922025World ChampionshipsTokyo, Japan12th (sf)400 m hurdles54.372026European ChampionshipsBirmingham, United Kingdom5th400 m hurdles54.29Mediterranean GamesTaranto, Italy1st400 m hurdles54.22World Ultimate ChampionshipBudapest, Hungary13th (h)400 m hurdles54.57 1Did not finish in the final
Circuit performances
Personal bests Outdoor 100 metres: 11.83 (+0.5 m/s) – Rubiera, Italy, 13 September 2016 200 metres: 23.53 (+0.7 m/s) – Casalmaggiore, Italy, 12 September 2016 400 metres: 52.25 – Modena, Italy, 5 May 2016 400 metres hurdles: 53.89 – Budapest, Hungary, 22 August 2023
Indoor 200 metres: 23.86 – Padua, Italy, 2016 400 metres: 52.97 – Madrid, Spain, 2017
National titles Folorunso won 11 national championships at individual senior level.
Italian Athletics Championships 400 metres hurdles: 2016, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2026 (6) Italian Athletics Indoor Championships 400 metres: 2016, 2017, 2020, 2023, 2024 (5)
See also List of Italian records in athletics Italian all-time lists - 400 metres hurdles Italian national track relay team Naturalized athletes of Italy List of eligibility transfers in athletics
References
External links
Ayomide Folorunso at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics (archived, alternate link) Ayomide Temilade Folorunso – CONI – Paris 2024