Mamadou Samba Bah (born 13 May 1995) is a Guinean judoka who competes in the under 73kg category.
Selected to compete at the delayed 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, he was drawn in his first match against Tsend-Ochiryn Tsogtbaatar who would go on and win the bronze medal for Mongolia.[1] As a Guinean competitor he had to be granted special dispensation to compete because he missed the official weigh-in after the Guinean federation initially pulled their athletes from the Games over fears around the COVID-19 pandemic, before rescinding that decision after the games had started.[2][3]
References
- ^ "Judo - BAH Mamadou Samba". Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 26 July 2021. Retrieved 24 July 2021.
- ^ "Tokyo Olympics: judoka Samba Bah will compete 1 hour from Conakry". guineenews.org.
- ^ "Guinea reverses decision to pull out of Tokyo Olympics". apnews.com.