Antoinette Guedia Mouafo
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Antoinette Joyce Guedia Mouafo (born 21 October 1995) is a
Cameroon Cameroon (; french: Cameroun, ff, Kamerun), officially the Republic of Cameroon (french: République du Cameroun, links=no), is a country in west-central Africa. It is bordered by Nigeria to the west and north; Chad to the northeast; the C ...
ian swimmer. She began swimming in 2003, at the age of 8, and became national champion in the women's 100 metre breaststroke category in 2006. Guedia represented Cameroon at the 2008 Summer Olympics in
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, and was, at the age of 12, the youngest athlete of any nationality at the Games. Competing in the 50 metre freestyle, she finished fourth in her heat with a time of 33.59 seconds. She had trained in a 22-metre pool in a hotel in Cameroon."Youngest Olympian makes wide-eyed debut"
, Agence France-Presse, August 15, 2008 She competed in the women's 50m freestyle at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, finishing with a time of 29.28 seconds in 53rd place in the heats.


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1995 births Living people Cameroonian female swimmers Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic swimmers of Cameroon 20th-century Cameroonian women 21st-century Cameroonian women {{Cameroon-swimming-bio-stub