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Falilat Ogunkoya

Falilat Ogunkoya-Osheku (born 5 December 1968 in Ode Lemo, Ogun State, Nigeria) 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.

Twenty-eight years ago, Falilat Ogunkoya made history by becoming the first Nigerian to win an individual medal in track and field at the Olympics.

Queen of tracks, Chief (Mrs.) Falilat Ogunkoya-Omotayo retired from athletics in after 20 years of burning the tracks.

My dad (Tony Osheku) was an athletics coach, and my mum, Falilat Ogunkoya, represented Nigeria in athletics for many years.

Nigerian track and field legend Falilat Ogunkoya urges immediate reforms after Team Nigeria's poor Paris Olympics performance, warning of potential.

On the 29th of July , Falilat Ogunkoya became Nigeria's first individual woman Olympic medallist when she won bronze medal in metres at.

Ogunkoya has won a number of national championships, including a gold medal in 1996 in the 400 metres, gold in the 200 metres and 400 m in 1998, and gold again in 1999 and 2001 in the 400 m. At the 1987 All Africa Games in Nairobi she won the silver medal in the 200 m.

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Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Falilat Ogunkoya has received more than 57,196 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Falilat Ogunkoya is the 4,355th most popular athlete (down from 3,542nd in 2019), the 181st most popular biography from Nigeria and the 10th most popular Nigerian Athlete.