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Ayodelé Ikuesan

French athlete in the sprints

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ2875000
Source-derived summary

Ayodelé Ikuesan (born 15 May 1985) is a French sprinter who specialises in the 60 metres and 4 × 100 metres relay. Ikuesan won the 4 × 100 m relay gold medal at the 2009 Mediterranean Games. She competed in the 60m at the 2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships, the 4 × 100 m relay at the 2011 and 2013 World Championships, the 4 × 100 m relay at the 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games.

Personal life

Ikuesan was born in Paris, to Nigerian parents.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1985, 2009, 2011, 2013—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1985-05-15. For this dossier, Ayodelé, Ikuesan and French is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from Ayodelé Ikuesan” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.