Emmanuella Atora Eyeghe

Emmanuella Jurielcy Atora Eyeghe (born 3 May 1996) is a Gabonese taekwondo practitioner. She qualified to represent Gabon at the 2024 Summer Olympics. Biography Atora had played football as a youth, but her father enrolled her in taekwondo in 2011.

Atora took a break from competition for a time and had a son. Afterwards, she initially stopped competing altogether. Still, she decided to relaunch her career after receiving support from several people. She participated in the African Championships in 2021 and the 2023 World Taekwondo Grand Prix, and won the bronze medal at the 2023 Senegal Open.

Atora was one of four Gabonese taekwondo practitioners invited to the African Taekwondo Olympic Qualification Tournament in February 2024. She defeated Nada Laaraj of Morocco to qualify for the 2024 Summer Olympics as a representative of Gabon. She was the country's first qualifier for the 2024 Olympics, its only taekwondo qualifier, and its first-ever female taekwondo qualifier. In an interview with Gabon Media Time following her win, she described her career as "I hit people for a living."