In the course of her career she won a total of five gold medals at the Pan-African Games and also won the long jump at the 1974 Commonwealth Games . Before her great sporting successes, she had already represented her country at the age of 18 at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich . There she did not come over a 19th place in the long jump qualification. In the pentathlon she finished 14th and with the Nigerian 4 x 100 meter relay with the slowest rated time of the heats, she did not make it to the final.
Nigeria
