Grace Gabriel Ofodile (born 25 June 1988) is a Nigerian

badminton player Badminton is a racquet sport played using racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net. Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are "singles" (with one player per side) and "doubles" (with two players pe ...

. She won the women's singles title at the 2012 and 2013

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. Gabriel also won the women's singles silver medal at the

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and

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Career

She won the silver medal in the women's singles at the

2011 All-Africa Games The 10th All-Africa Games took place between September 3–18, 2011 in Maputo, Mozambique. Maputo's hosting marked the third time the Games was held in the southern part of the continent. Host awarding In April 2005, Lusaka, Zambia was named t ...

. She became the runner-up in the women's singles event at the 2014 African Badminton Championships. She won second place at the 2015

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. In September 2013, it was reported that she was one of the 14 players selected for the

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, a program that aimed to help African badminton players to compete at the

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. She studied at

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and lives in the Netherlands.

Achievements

All-Africa Games

''Women's singles'' ''Women's doubles''

African Championships

''Women's singles'' ''Women's doubles'' ''Mixed doubles''

BWF International Challenge/Series (8 titles, 11 runners-up)

''Women's singles'' ''Women's doubles'' :

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tournament :

BWF International Series The BWF International Series is a grade 3 and level 2 tournament part of Continental Circuit of BWF tournaments along with International Challenge (level 1) and Future Series (level 3), sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF) since 2007. ...

tournament :

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tournament

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Gabriel, Grace 1988 births Living people Sportspeople from Jos Nigerian female badminton players Competitors at the 2007 All-Africa Games Competitors at the 2011 All-Africa Games Competitors at the 2015 African Games African Games gold medalists for Nigeria African Games silver medalists for Nigeria African Games bronze medalists for Nigeria African Games medalists in badminton 21st-century Nigerian women