Falilat Ogunkoya

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Falilat Ogunkoya (born May 12, 1968 ) is a former Nigerian sprinter and Olympic third party.

Ogunkoya won gold over 400 m at the Nigerian Championships in 1996, gold over 200 m and 400 m in 1998, and gold over 400 m again in 1999 and 2001.

She also won the silver medal in the 200-meter run at the Pan-African Games in Kenya in 1987, in 1995 in Zimbabwe also silver in the 400 m and in 1999 in South Africa the gold medal in the 400 m.

At the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta , she won the bronze medal in the 400-meter run behind Marie-José Perec (FRA) and Olha Wladykina-Bryshina (UKR).

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