At the female 4x400m relay content of ASIAD 19 Athletics, the Vietnamese athletes on the 4th place final and no medal. Won gold medal and break the ASIAD record in this category, the 4 Bahrain athletes. They are Muna Saad Mubarak, Oluwakemi Mujidat Adeyoka, Zenab Moussa Ali Mahamat and Salwa Eid Naser.
Of the 4 faces above, Oluwakemi Mujidat Adeyoka and Salwa Eid Naser Naser were officially confirmed as the nigerian origin. Salwa Eid Naser Naser has the birth name is Ebelechukwu Antoinette Agbapuonwu. According to the Middle East media, her father was originally from Bahrain, so the athlete was immediately naturalized when he was 14 years old.
After naturalization of Bahrain, Ebelechukwu changed its name to Salwa EID as it is now, and transferred to Islam. She won the 2014 Young Olympic Games, gold medal in the 2015 World Young Athletics Championship on the 400m run. Also in this content, Salwa EID has won the world gold medal 2017, the World Gold Medal 2019.
Oluwakemi “Kemi” Mujidat Adekoya was also officially confirmed as the Nigerian Bahrain. She has attended a number of athletes in Nigeria but has not been to the national team. By 2014, this athlete suddenly turned to naturalization and competed for the Bahrain team up to now.
At ASIAD 18 taking place in 2018 in Indonesia, Adekoya won 2 gold medals about 400m surpassing women's fence and 4x400m to relay the mixture of men and women. But then, this athlete was concluded to use doping. Her medal ASIAD was canceled, and Vietnamese athletes Quach Thi Lan were tried to win the gold medal to run 400m surpassing the female fence.
Ignoring one side of the doping scandal, Adekoya played impressively at ASIAD 19. She won the gold medal in all 4 participating contents of running 400m female, 400m to cross women's fence, 4x400m relay for women's teammates and 4x400m to relay the male and female teammate. This achievement made her one of the best athletes this year's Asian Games.
The remaining two athletes in Bahrain's 4x400m relay player team, Muna Saad Mubarak and Zenab Moussa Ali Mahamat are written as Bahrain people completely. However, practical information may not be so. Zenab Moussa Ali has a personal Facebook account, but she mainly uses French on it.
In Bahrain, the two main languages used are Arab and English, and some local dialects. The fact that Zenab Moussa Ali uses the other two languages is an unusual thing. Learn more on the athlete's personal page, there is information that she used to let her representative be the National flag of the Republic of Tchad, a Central African.
The main language used in the Republic of Tchad is Arab and French. In addition, many friends commented, like the articles of Zenab Moussa Ali also recorded information they were born and raised in the Republic of Tchad. This is not in accordance with the information of Zenab Moussa Ali, who recorded himself born and raised in Bahrain.
The other two members of Bahrain's 4x400m relay team were registered but did not play as Awtif Imoleayo Abdallah Ahmed and Aminate Oluwaseun Yusuf Jamal. In particular, Yusuf Jamal was officially confirmed by a Nigerian athletes community originating from this African country. She used to win the world bronze medal in 2019.
At ASIAD 19, Bahrain is the second team ranked second in the Athletics, only after the Chinese host. Before the final competition (only two male and female marathons), Bahrain athletes won a total of 9 gold medals. More notably, the owner of all the gold medals is related to the athletes:
– Birhanu Balew: gold medal 5,000m in male, 10,000m male, is a ethnician of Ethiopia.
– Oluwakemi Adekoya: 400m female gold medal, 400m surpassing women's fence, 4x400m relay for women's teammates, 4x400m relay to the mixed teammate, nigeria.
– WinFred Yavi: HCV 1,500m female, 3,000m beyond female obstacles, is the original Kenya.
– Violah Jepchumba: HCV 10,000m female, originally Kenya.
– Musa Isah: HCV 4x400M relay a mixed teammate, nigeria.
In 2018, when asked about the strategy of using naturalized athletes to become Asian athletics, Mr. Bader Nasser, General Secretary of the Bahrain Athletics Federation explained: “We naturalize the athletes in accordance with the World Athletics Federation. These athletes are naturalized when they are young and gradually trained.”
“We do not naturalize the athletes who have become famous, but find potential people and train them into the champion,” Bader Nasser added. But in fact, many athletes aged 20-25 played for other countries suddenly turned to Bahrain nationality in early 2018, just a few months before ASIAD 18 took place.
Looking at the past, at ASIAD 1998, Bahrain only sent one athlete to attend athletics and no medal. By 4 years later, they conducted the naturalization of 2 Morocco -original athletes, and immediately had 2 gold medals. In the following years, the achievements of Bahrain athletics grew as they had African naturalized athletes from Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria …
