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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.

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

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.