Female
sprinter Miss Gina Bass has been chosen as The Gambia’s flag bearer for the
opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Rio.
The
21-year-old will become the first female to carry the flag for The Gambia.
Miss
Gina Bass is the only female competitors in The Gambia’s Olympic team of 4 for
Rio 2016 and is due to compete in the 200m.
She
will be the first female athlete to represent The Gambia in the Olympic Games
with standard qualification.
The
Rio 2016 opening ceremony is due to take place at the Maracanã Stadium today 5
August.
At
the age of 21, Miss Gina Bass will be taking part in her first Olympic Games in
Rio. She made her first major international appearance only in 2011 at the
World Youth Championship in Lille, France, but has already achieved a historic
record, becoming the first Gambia female athlete to break two national records
and qualify to the Olympic Games.
The
young athlete impressed all in French Guyana in June as she set a new national
record of 23.14 seconds in the 200 meter race and became the first Gambian
female athlete to qualify for the Olympic Games after bagging her ticket to the
2016 Olympic Games in Rio, Brazil.
She
is the second Gambian athlete in history to clock the qualification standard
for a summer Olympic Games, after Suwaibou Sanneh made it to the last Olympic
Games in London 2012 in the 100m.
The athletics competition begins on 12 August 2016.
