Dorcas Ajoke Adesokan (born 5 July 1998) is a Nigerian badminton player.[3] She showed her talent at a young age, by winning two gold medals at the 2014 African Youth Games. In 2019, she won the women's singles and doubles titles at the African Championships. She competed in the 2020 Summer Olympics, by achieving the best women's singles ranking on the African continent in the Race to Tokyo rankings.[4][5]
Career
In 2014, she won bronze medals at the African Championships in the women's singles and mixed doubles event, and silver medal in the mixed team event.[6] In June, she won Lagos International tournament in women's doubles events.[7]
In 2019, she competed at the African Games, won a mixed team gold, also two silver medals in the women's singles and doubles events.[2]
In 2024, Adesokan competed at the African Championships in Cairo, Egypt. She managed to win the bronze medal in the women's doubles with a new partner, Sofiat Arinola Obanishola. Meanwhile, in the women's team, she also claimed the bronze medal after losing to Ugandan in the semi-finals.[10] At the 2023 African Games in Ghana, she Adesokan won two bronze medals in the women's singles and doubles event partnering Obanishola.[11]
^"Adesokan Dorcas Ajoke". Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 8 September 2021. Retrieved 8 September 2021.
