Falilat Ogunkoya (born
5 December 1968 in Ode Remo, Ogun State) is a Nigerian former track and field athlete.
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. In 1995 at the
All Africa Games in Harare she won the
silver in the 400 m, and at the 1999 Games in Johannesburg she won a gold medal in the
400 m.
At the 1996 Summer Olympics she
won a bronze medal in
the 400 m, behind Marie-José Pérec of France and Cathy Freeman of Australia, in a personal best and African record of
49.10, which is currently the twelfth fastest of all time.
Achievements
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Year
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Competition
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Venue
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Position
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Event
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Notes
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Representing Nigeria
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1986
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World
Junior Championships
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Athens, Greece
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1st
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200m
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23.11 (wind: +0.6 m/s)
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3rd
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4 × 100 m
relay
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44.13
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1987
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All-Africa Games
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Nairobi, Kenya
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2nd
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100 m
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11.43
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2nd
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200 m
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22.95
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