Ayomide Folorunso

Ayomide Temilade Oluwatoyosi Folorunso (born 17 October 1996) is an Italian athlete specialising in the 400 metres hurdles. She competed in the 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2015 World Championships in Beijing.

Biography
Her family is originally from Nigeria, but since 2004 Ayomide has settled with her parents, mother Mariam and father Emmanuel, a mining geologist, in Fidenza. She failed to wear the azzurro at the 2013 World Youth Championships in Athletics despite having obtained the minimum in five specialties, because she received her Italian passport a few days after the world championship, therefore she is member of the Italy national athletics team.

National records

 * 400 metres hurdles: 53.89 at the 2023 World Championships semi-finals in Budapest, Hungary, 22 August 2023.
 * 4x400 metres relay indoor: 3:31.55 (Birmingham, England, 4 March 2018) - current holder with Chiara Bazzoni, Raphaela Lukudo, Maria Enrica Spacca

Achievements
1Did not finish in the final

Personal bests

 * Outdoor
 * 100 metres: 11.83 (+0.5 m/s) – Rubiera, Italy, 13 September 2016
 * 200 metres: 23.53 (+0.7 m/s) – Casalmaggiore, Italy, 12 September 2016
 * 400 metres: 52.25 – Modena, Italy, 5 May 2016
 * 400 metres hurdles: 53.89 – Budapest, Hungary, 22 August 2023


 * Indoor
 * 200 metres: 23.86 – Padua, Italy, 2016
 * 400 metres: 52.97 – Madrid, Spain, 2017

National titles

 * Italian Athletics Championships
 * 400 metres hurdles: 2016, 2019
 * Italian Athletics Indoor Championships
 * 400 metres: 2016, 2017, 2020