Oludamola Osayomi

Quick Facts

Full Name	Oludamola Osayomi
Occupation	Sprinter
Date Of Birth	Jun 26, 1986(1986-06-26)
Age	38
Birthplace	Ilesa
Country	Nigeria
Birth City	Osun State
Horoscope	Gemini

Oludamola Osayomi Biography

Oludamola Osayomi is one of the most popular and richest Sprinter who was born on June 26, 1986 in Ilesa, Osun State, Nigeria. Oludamola Bolanle (“Damola”) Osayomi (born 26 June 1986 in Ilesha, Osun State) is a Nigerian sprinter, who is a specialist in the 100m and 200 meters. She has been the four-time gold medallist from the African Championships in Athletics and was awarded the Olympic silver medal for Nigeria in the 4x100m relay in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. She also took home the 200 and 100 metres sprints at the 2007 All-Africa Games.

The 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, Osayomi won the women’s 100m race, but she lost her gold medal following the fact that her blood sample came back positive for methylhexanamine. The substance was recently added to banned list of the World Anti-Doping Association’s list. Incredibly, prior to being banned she said that “I don’t know why they allow people to participate in the competition if they cannot follow the rules.”

The athlete did not perform performing as well in 2009: she was eliminated during the heats of relays and sprints during the 2010 World Championships in Athletics and her best performances in the time of 11.31 as well as 23.41 seconds, which were both recorded in the FBK Games, were much slower than those of the previous year. In 2011, her best times of the year were during the 2010 African Championships in Athletics in which she was the winner of the 200-meter race, claimed the 100-meter bronze and set the Championships record for the relay along with Blessing Okagbare. She was chosen as a representative of Africa in the 2009 IAAF Continental Cup and following her fifth place in the 200 mrace, she took home a bronze relay medal with a team that included the top four 100-meter runners at the African Championships (Gabon’s Ruddy Zang Milama as well as her teammates Osazuwa as well as Okagbare).

Oludamola Osayomi Net Worth

Oludamola Osayomi is one of the richest Sprinter from Nigeria. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Oludamola Osayomi 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Osayomi’s debut international competition for Nigeria was in 2003 at the World Youth Championships in Athletics where she placed in the semi-finals in both 100 meters and 200 m. She started competing in senior competitions later that year, and was member of the Nigerian 4×100 meters relay team. When she made her Olympic debut her team placed sixth in the ladies’ final of the 2004 Athens Olympics and they was able to repeat that feat during the 2005 World Championships in Athletics the following year. Osayomi demonstrated her individual skills during the 2007 All-Africa Games by taking a 100/200 m gold- medal double and then assisting the team win winning the bronze medal. On her world 100m first appearance at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics, she made it into the closing stage (finishing in eighth place) and recorded a personal record time of 11.15 seconds during the final heat. The Nigerian women were not able to make it to the final of the relay in that event.

She began the indoor track season by running a personal record in the 60 metres of 7.19 seconds for the 60 m and then finished sixth in the finals of the event during the 2008 IAAF World Indoor Championships. The 2008 African Championships in Athletics she won a record-breaking double continental title with gold medals in the 100 m relay and individual races, and winning a bronze medal in the 200 meters. Two personal bests were set from the Nigerian Championships, as she took the 100-meter record with a time of 11.08 seconds (also a record in the meet) and took the 200 m race in 22.74 seconds (half one second faster than second-placed Gloria Kemasuode). The result gave her the chance to compete for Nigeria in Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics at Beijing. She was a 100m semi-finalist as well as the 200 quarter-finalist. Alongside Kemasuode, Agnes Osazuwa and Ene Franca Idoko, she participated in the relay 4×100 meters. In their first round , they came fourth, and advanced to in the semi-finals as fastest qualifiers. Osazuwa was replaced by Halimat Ismaila in the final team, and they were able to sprint in 43.04 seconds. They took third place with a bronze medal in front of Russia as well as Belgium. In 2016 in 2016, the Russian squad was disqualified, and stripped of their gold medals for doping infractions by One among their Russian participants, Yuliya Chermoshanskaya, thereby moving Nigeria into the gold medal spot.

Her personal best for the 100 m is 10.99 seconds, set in São Paulo in 2011. She studied business administration at the University of Texas at El Paso and represented the school in athletics in 2006. She was the original winner of the 100 m at the 2010 Commonwealth Games but was stripped of her title and banned after her doping test came back positive for the stimulant methylhexanamine.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Facts & Trivia

Oludamola Ranked on the list of most popular Sprinter. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Nigeria. Oludamola Osayomi celebrates birthday on June 26 of every year.