Falilat Ogunkoya

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Medal record
Falilat Ogunkoya
Falilat Ogunkoya
Women's Athletics
Competitor for Flag of Nigeria Nigeria
Olympic Games
Silver 1996 Atlanta 4x400 m Relay
Bronze 1996 Atlanta 400 m
Bronze 2000 Sydney 4x400 m

Falilat Ogunkoya (born 12 May 1968) is a Nigerian 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 Kenya she won the silver medal in the 200 m. In 1995 at the Zimbabwe Games she won the silver in the 400 m, and at the 1999 Games in South Africa 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 Perec 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.

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