Sierra Leone youngster, Mariama Koroma will come up against Taiwanese judo veteran Lien Chen-ling in the elimination round of 16 of the preliminary round of the -57 kg women’s fight.

Mariama Koroma aged 17 will have to be up to the task of eliminating the 36- year-old Chen-ling otherwise known as “Queen of Judo” by the Taiwanese fans.

The fight already dubbed as Mother versus Daughter will come up on Monday, July 29, at the Arena Champ-de-Mars, otherwise known as the Grand Palais Éphémère is the third fight of the day and on mat 1.

The veteran who is in her third Olympic Games finished fifth in her Olympic debut in Rio in 2016 and was eliminated after a first-round bye, in the round of 16 by Slovenia’s Kaja Kajzer during the round of 16 at the Tokyo Games.

On Sept. 25, 2023, at her fourth Asian Games, Lien won the first Asian Games gold medal in judo ever won by a Taiwanese woman by defeating Japanese standout Momo Tamaoki, an opponent she had never beaten before.

Unlike the veteran, Mariama Koroma will be making her Olympic debut in Paris but has been a tough nut to crack. At the 2024 African Championships in Casablanca, she competed in Round 1 -57kg.

She finished fifth place at the 2023 African Open in Niamey in the -63kg. Koroma is one of the eleven judo teens at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games and the second youngest of all athletes behind Nera Tiebwa (aged 15) from Kiribati.

Koroma becomes the first female Judoka in Sierra Leone to qualify for the Olympic Games.

Meanwhile, the winner of the ‘Mother and Daughter’ duel will have to face the winner between Marica Perisic of Croatia and Manita Pradhan Shrestha from Nepal.