Olajumoke Bodunrin
 Olajumoke Bodunrin (in background) collapsed from exhaustion at the end of the 400 metre race at the 1968 Summer Olympics. | ||||||||||||
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| Born | 7 February 1945 Odo-Asanyin, Ogun State, Nigeria[1] | |||||||||||
| Height | 1.52 m (5 ft 0 in) | |||||||||||
| Weight | 44 kg (97 lb) | |||||||||||
| Sport | ||||||||||||
| Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||
| 100 m, 400 m | ||||||||||||
| Achievements and titles | ||||||||||||
| Personal bests | 100 m – 11.71 (1968) 400 m – 56.1 (1968)[1] | |||||||||||
Medal record
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Olajumoke Bodunrin ⓘ(born 7 February 1945) is a retired Nigerian sprinter.[2] Regarded as "Africa's fastest woman" during her career,[3] Olajumoke claimed gold at the 1965 All-Africa Games in Brazzaville, Congo before going on to represent Nigeria at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico.[4]
References
- 1 2 Olajumoke Bodunrin. Sports Reference
- ↑ "Olajumoke Bodunrin". FanBase. Retrieved 13 September 2015.
- ↑ "The Death of Nigerian Sports and a Walk Down Memory Lane". Nigerian Muse. 22 August 2009. Retrieved 13 September 2015.
- ↑ "1968 Olympic Games". Sports Bank. Retrieved 13 September 2015.
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- 1945 births
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- Nigerian women sprinters
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1968 Summer Olympics
- Sportspeople from Ogun State
- Olympic athletes for Nigeria
- Commonwealth Games athletes for Nigeria
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games
- African Games gold medalists for Nigeria
- African Games gold medalists in athletics (track and field)
- African Games athletes for Nigeria
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1965 All-Africa Games
- Medalists at the 1965 All-Africa Games
- Olympic women sprinters
- 20th-century Nigerian sportswomen
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