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Falilat Ogunkoya
Nigerian sprinter
| Born | 5 December Ode-Lemo Ogun |
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Falilat Ogunkoya-Osheku (born 5 December in Ode Lemo, Ogun State, Nigeria)[1] is a Nigerian former track and field athlete who holds the distinction of becoming the first Nigerian to win an individual track and field medal at the Olympic games.[2]
Ogunkoya has won a number of national championships, including a gold medal in in the metres, gold in the metres and m in , and gold again in and in the m. At the All Africa Games in Nairobi she won the silver medal in the m. In at the All Africa Games in Harare she won the silver in the m, and at the Games in Johannesburg she won a gold medal in the m.
At the Summer Olympics Ogunkoya won a bronze medal in the m, behind Marie-José Pérec of France and Cathy Freeman of Australia, in a personal best and African record of , which is currently the twelfth fastest of all time. It marked the first time a Nigerian athlete won a medal in an individual track and field event.
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