Mamadou Samba Bah (born 13 May 1995) is a Guinean

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ka who competes in the under 73kg category. Selected to compete at the delayed

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, he was drawn in his first match against Tsend-Ochiryn Tsogtbaatar who would go on and win the bronze medal for Mongolia. As a Guinean competitor he had to be granted special dispensation to compete because he missed the official weigh-in after the Guinean federation initially pulled their athletes from the Games over fears around the

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pandemic, before rescinding that decision after the games had started.

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1995 births Living people Guinean male judoka Olympic judoka for Guinea Judoka at the 2020 Summer Olympics {{Guinea-judo-bio-stub