Kemi Francis gained her first international experience in 2011 at the Junior African Championships in Gaborone , where she won the silver medal in the heptathlon with 4836 points. The following year she took part in the African Championships in Porto-Novo , where she was seventh in the heptathlon with 4855 points. Two years later, she retired from the African Championships in Marrakech in the 400-meter hurdles with 61.42 s in the first round and finished fourth in the heptathlon at the African Games in Brazzaville with 5428 points. In 2019 she again took part in the African Games in Rabat , where she won the silver medal behind Marthe Koala from Burma with a new record of 5836 points . In addition, she made it to the finals in the 100-meter hurdles , in which she no longer started. With the Nigerian 4 x 400 meter relay she won in 3: 30.32 minutes.
In 2019, Francis became Nigerian champion in the 100-meter hurdles and heptathlon.
Personal bests
100 m hurdles: 13.47 s (−1.4 m / s), June 6, 2016 in Akure
Nigeria
