Aya Girard De Langlade Mpali
Aya Girard de Langlade Mpali (born 24 June 2004) is a Gabonese swimmer who has represented her country in international competitions. She was chosen, together with her brother, to compete at the postponed 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, swimming in the Swimming at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's 50 metre freestyle, women's 50 metre freestyle heats. Early life Aya Girard de Langlade Mpali was born on 24 June 2004 and has a brother, fellow competitive swimmer Adam Mpali. She took up swimming at the age of 4, something she says sets her apart within the national competition but is not an advantage compared to swimmers from the rest of the world. name=Tokyo2020> Career Mpali and her brother competed at the 2019 African Games and 2019 World Swimming Championships; she went out in the heats at both events. She was a flagbearer for Gabon at the 2020 Summer Olympics in 2021. However, she did not have great ambitions for the competition. She was one of the first women to qualify for ...
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Gabon
Gabon (; ; snq, Ngabu), officially the Gabonese Republic (french: République gabonaise), is a country on the west coast of Central Africa. Located on the equator, it is bordered by Equatorial Guinea to the northwest, Cameroon to the north, the Republic of the Congo on the east and south, and the Gulf of Guinea to the west. It has an area of nearly and its population is estimated at million people. There are coastal plains, mountains (the Cristal Mountains and the Chaillu Massif in the centre), and a savanna in the east. Since its independence from France in 1960, the sovereign state of Gabon has had three presidents. In the 1990s, it introduced a multi-party system and a democratic constitution that aimed for a more transparent electoral process and reformed some governmental institutions. With petroleum and foreign private investment, it has the fourth highest HDI in the region (after Mauritius, Seychelles and South Africa) and the fifth highest GDP per capita (PPP) i ...
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