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{{short description|Nigerian sprinter}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2019}}
{{Use Nigerian English|date=August 2019}}
{{Infobox sportsperson
|birth_date=5 December 1968
|birth_place=Ode-Lemo Ogun
|death_date=
|death_place=
|medaltemplates={{MedalSport | Women's [[Athletics (sport)|Athletics]]}}
{{MedalCountry | {{NGR}} }}
{{MedalCompetition|[[Olympic Games]]}}
{{MedalSilver | [[1996 Summer Olympics|1996 Atlanta]] | [[Athletics at the 1996 Summer Olympics|4x400&nbsp;m relay]]}}
{{MedalBronze | [[1996 Summer Olympics|1996 Atlanta]] | [[Athletics at the 1996 Summer Olympics|400&nbsp;m]]}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[African Championships in Athletics|African Championships]]}}
{{MedalGold | [[1988 African Championships in Athletics|1988 Annaba]] | 200&nbsp;m}}
{{MedalGold | [[1989 African Championships in Athletics|1989 Lagos]] | 400&nbsp;m}}
{{MedalGold | [[1998 African Championships in Athletics|1998 Dakar]] | 200&nbsp;m}}
{{MedalGold | [[1998 African Championships in Athletics|1998 Dakar]] | 400&nbsp;m}}
{{MedalSilver | [[1988 African Championships in Athletics|1988 Annaba]] | 100&nbsp;m}}
{{MedalSilver | [[1989 African Championships in Athletics|1989 Lagos]] | 200&nbsp;m}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[World Junior Championships in Athletics|World Junior Championships]]}}
{{MedalGold | [[1986 World Junior Championships in Athletics|1986 Athens]] | [[1986 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Women's 200 metres|200&nbsp;m]]}}
{{MedalBronze | [[1986 World Junior Championships in Athletics|1986 Athens]] | [[1986 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Women's 4 × 100 metres relay|4x100&nbsp;m relay]]}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[All-Africa Games]]}}
{{MedalGold | [[1999 All-Africa Games|1999 Johannesburg]] | 400&nbsp;m}}
{{MedalSilver | [[1987 All-Africa Games|1987 Nairobi]] | 100&nbsp;m}}
{{MedalSilver | [[1987 All-Africa Games|1987 Nairobi]] | 200&nbsp;m}}
{{MedalSilver | [[1995 All-Africa Games|1995 Harare]] | 400&nbsp;m}}
}}

'''Falilat Ogunkoya-Osheku''' (born 5 December 1968 in Ode Lemo, [[Ogun State]], [[Nigeria]])<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20100912011759/http://www.falilatogunkoya.com/biography.html Biography]. Official website. Retrieved on 2014-01-12.</ref> is a Nigerian former [[track and field]] athlete who holds the distinction of becoming the first Nigerian to win an individual [[track and field]] medal at the [[Olympic games]].<ref>[https://encomium.ng/i-pray-my-second-marriage-succeeds-former-nigerian-athlete-falilat-ogunkoya-omotayo/ I Pray My Second Marriage Succeeds]</ref>

Ogunkoya has won a number of national championships, including a [[gold medal]] in 1996 in the [[400 metres]], gold in the [[200 metres]] and 400 m in 1998, and gold again in 1999 and 2001 in the 400 m. At the 1987 [[All Africa Games]] in [[Nairobi]] she won the [[silver medal]] in the 200 m. In 1995 at the All Africa Games in [[Harare]] she won the silver in the 400 m, and at the 1999 Games in [[Johannesburg]] she won a gold medal in the 400 m.

At the [[1996 Summer Olympics]]  Ogunkoya won a [[bronze medal]] in the 400 m, behind [[Marie-José Pérec]] of [[France]] and [[Cathy Freeman]] of [[Australia]], in a personal best and [[African records in athletics|African record]] of 49.10, which is currently the twelfth fastest of all time. It marked the first time a Nigerian athlete won a medal in an individual track and field event.

==Achievements==
{| {{AchievementTable|Event=yes}}
|-
!colspan="6"|Representing {{NGR}}
|-
|rowspan=2|1986
|rowspan=2|[[1986 World Junior Championships in Athletics|World Junior Championships]]
|rowspan=2|[[Athens]], [[Greece]]
|bgcolor=gold|1st
|200m
|[[1986 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Women's 200 metres|23.11]] <small>(wind: +0.6&nbsp;m/s)</small>
|-
|bgcolor="cc9966"|3rd
|4 × 100 m relay
|[[1986 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Women's 4 × 100 metres relay|44.13]]
|-
|rowspan=2|1987
|rowspan=2|[[1987 All-Africa Games|All-Africa Games]]
|rowspan=2|[[Nairobi, Kenya]]
|bgcolor="silver" | 2nd
|100 m
|[[Athletics at the 1987 All-Africa Games|11.43]]
|-
|bgcolor="silver" | 2nd
|200 m
|[[Athletics at the 1987 All-Africa Games|22.95]]
|}

==References==
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==External links==
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{{Footer African Champions women's 400 metres}}
{{Footer IAAF World Cup Champions 400m Women}}
{{Footer All-Africa Champions 400 m Women}}
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[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Sportspeople from Ogun State]]
[[Category:Nigerian female sprinters]]
[[Category:Yoruba sportswomen]]
[[Category:Mississippi State University alumni]]
[[Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1988 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Olympic athletes for Nigeria]]
[[Category:Olympic silver medalists for Nigeria]]
[[Category:Olympic bronze medalists for Nigeria]]
[[Category:Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Olympic silver medalists in athletics (track and field)]]
[[Category:Olympic bronze medalists in athletics (track and field)]]
[[Category:World Athletics Championships athletes for Nigeria]]
[[Category:African Games gold medalists for Nigeria]]
[[Category:African Games medalists in athletics (track and field)]]
[[Category:Goodwill Games medalists in athletics]]
[[Category:African Games silver medalists for Nigeria]]
[[Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1987 All-Africa Games]]
[[Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1995 All-Africa Games]]
[[Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1999 All-Africa Games]]
[[Category:World Athletics Indoor Championships medalists]]
[[Category:Competitors at the 1998 Goodwill Games]]
[[Category:Olympic female sprinters]]
[[Category:World Athletics U20 Championships winners]]
[[Category:Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field)]]
[[Category:Universiade bronze medalists for Nigeria]]
[[Category:20th-century Nigerian women]]
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