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Johnathan Akinyemi

Canoe slalom racer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ6272412
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Johnathan Peter Akinyemi(born 22 November 1988 in Warrington, England) is a British-Nigerian slalom canoeist who competed at the international level from 2006 to 2016. He competed for Great Britain as a junior in 2006 and then represented Nigeria from 2007 onwards.

At the 2012 Summer Olympics he competed in the K1 event, finishing 21st in the heats, failing to qualify for the semifinals. He finished in 20th place in the same event at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1988, 2006, 2016, 2007—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1988-11-22. The account is most persuasive where Johnathan, Akinyemi and Canoe can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from Johnathan Akinyemi” 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.