Full name Lenient Obia Name Lenient Obia National team Nigeria Height 1.57 m | Sport Swimming Weight 55 kg Strokes Backstroke | |
Born 1 August 1977 (age 46) ( 1977-08-01 ) | ||
Lenient Obia (born August 1, 1977) is a Nigerian former swimmer, who specialized in backstroke events. Obia qualified for the women's 100 m backstroke at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by receiving a Universality place from FINA, in an entry time of 1:09.69. She topped the first heat against Honduras' Ana Galindo and Turkmenistan's Yelena Rojkova in 1:09.95, just 0.26 of a second off her entry time. Obia failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed thirty-ninth overall in the preliminaries.
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