Halimat Ismaila

Halimat Ismaila
nation	Nigeria
birthday	3rd July 1984
Career
discipline	Sprinter
status	active
Medal table
Olympic games silver 2008 Beijing 4 × 100 m

Halimat Ismaila (born July 3, 1984 in Ilorin ) is a Nigerian athlete who specializes in sprinting .

She took part in the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens with the 4 × 400 m relay of Nigeria, which could not qualify for the final round.

She celebrated her greatest success so far by winning the bronze medal in the 4 × 100 m relay at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing . The Nigerian sprint relay had originally not qualified for the competition and could only participate because Finland withdrew its relay at short notice. Ismaila also started in Beijing in the 100-meter run , but was eliminated in the first lap with a time of 11.72 s. On August 17, 2016, the Russian runners Julia Schermoschanskaja , Evgenia Polyakowa , Alexandra Fedoriwa and Julia Guschtschina were stripped of their 2008 gold medal in the 4 × 100 meter relay for doping. The medals of Belgium (now gold), Nigeria (now silver) and Brazil (now bronze) have been gradually adjusted.

Halimat Ismaila is 1.58 m tall and weighs 56 kg.

Top performances

• 100 m: 11.31 s, May 17, 2008, El Paso
• 200 m : 23.47 s, May 16, 2008, El Paso
• 400 m : 52.22 s, May 10, 2004, Abuja
• 60 m (hall): 7.32 s, February 26, 2005, Lincoln

Web links

• Halimat Ismaila in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Halimat Ismaila in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Athlete profile on the University of Texas website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ AthleticsAfrica.com: IAAF hands Nigeria Beijing relay spot ( February 19, 2009 memento in the Internet Archive ) , July 30, 2008
2. ↑ Doping at the Olympics: IOC recognizes Russia's 2008 relay gold. Spiegel Online, August 17, 2016, accessed August 17, 2016 .