Jonathan Akinyemi (born November 22, 1988
in Warrington, England) is a Nigerian slalom
canoer. At the 2012 Summer Olympics he
competed in the K-1 event, finishing 21st in
the heats, failing to qualify for the semifinals.


Nigerian canoeist, Jonathan Akinyemi, has
arrived in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for the 2016
Summer Olympic Games which begins August
5.
The British-born star became the first Nigerian
athlete to hit the South American country for
the quadrennial games with Team Nigeria set
to depart the country August 1, Vanguard
reports.

Akinyemi, who will be making his second
straight bow for Nigeria at the Olympics in the
canoe/slalom kayak event at the Rio Games,
arrived Brazil early Wednesday and
immediately went through his paces.


The 27-year-old was received at the Games
Village by officials of Team Nigeria. “He
immediately got down to work and has not
slowed down since he hit Rio’’ , an excited
official of Nigeria Olympic Committee said.
Born in England, Jonathan Akinyemi is the first
Nigerian to compete in the canoeing event of
the Olympic Games.
He qualified as Nigeria’s only canoeist to Rio
2016 in the men’s K-1 class by obtaining a top
finish at the 2015 African Canoe Slalom
Championships in Sagana, Kenya.


He will be hoping to improve on his showing at
the London 2012 Olympics where he finished
21st in the heats, failing to qualify for the
semifinals.
Team Nigeria has been given a mandate of
bringing home at least 10 medals from the
2016 Games.

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