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Oludamola Bolanle Osayomi,Nigerian sprinter, 31, June 26. Born in Ilesha, Osun State, she was educated at the University of Texas at El Paso and represented the school athletically in 2006. She specialises in the 100 metres and 200 metres. She is a four-time gold medalist at the African Championships in Athletics and won an Olympic bronze medal with Nigeria in the 4×100 meters relay at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Osayomi also won the 100 and 200m sprints at the 2007 All-Africa Games. Her personal best for the 100m was 10.99 seconds, set in São Paulo in 2011.
At the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, Osayomi won the women’s 100 metres but lost her gold medal after her B sample tested positive for methylhexanamine, which has only been recently added to the World Anti-Doping Agency’s prohibited list.
— Jul 03, 2017 @ 01:00 GMT
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