Agnes Osazuwa (born 26 June 1989 in

Benin City Benin City serves as the Capital city, capital and largest Metropolitan area, metropolitan centre of Edo State, situated in Nigeria, southern Nigeria. It ranks as the List of Nigerian cities by population, fourth-most populous city in Niger ...

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) is a female

track and field Track and field (or athletics in British English) is a sport that includes Competition#Sports, athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name used in North America is derived from where the sport takes place, a ru ...

sprint athlete who competes internationally for Nigeria.Athlete biography: Agnes Osazuwa
beijing2008.cn, ret: 30 August 2008 Osazuwa represented

Nigeria at the 2008 Summer Olympics Nigeria competed in the 2008 Summer Olympics which were held in Beijing, People's Republic of China from August 8 to August 24, 2008. Medalists Athletics Fourteen men and eighteen women qualified to represent Nigeria in athletics. ;Key * Note ...

in Beijing competing at the

4 × 100 metres relay The 4 × 100 metres relay or sprint relay is an athletics track event run in lanes over one lap of the track with four runners completing 100 metres each. The first runners must begin in the same stagger as for the indiv ...

together with

Gloria Kemasuode Gloria E. Kemasuode Ubiebor (born 30 December 1979 in Delta State) is a female track and field sprint athlete, who competes internationally for Nigeria. Kemasuode represented Nigeria at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, competing at ...

Oludamola Osayomi Oludamola Bolanle ("Damola") Osayomi (born 26 June 1986 in Ilesha, Osun State) is a Nigerian sprinter who specializes in the 100 metres and 200 metres. She is a four-time gold medallist at the African Championships in Athletics and won an Ol ...

and Ene Franca Idoko she also took part in the

. In their first round heat they placed fourth behind Belgium, Great Britain and Brazil. Their time of 43.43 seconds was the best non-directly qualifying time and the sixth time overall out of sixteen participating nations. With this result they qualified for the final in which they replaced Osazuwa with Halimat Ismaila. They sprinted to a time of 43.04 seconds, a third place and a bronze medal behind Russia and Belgium. In 2016, the Russian team was disqualified and stripped of their gold medal due to doping violations by one of the Russian runners, Yuliya Chermoshanskaya, thereby promoting Nigeria to the silver medal position.

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Agnes Osazuwa at NBC Olympics website
1989 births Living people Nigerian female sprinters Olympic athletes for Nigeria Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for Nigeria Sportspeople from Benin City Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2010 Commonwealth Games Olympic silver medalists in athletics (track and field) Commonwealth Games athletes for Nigeria Olympic female sprinters {{Nigeria-athletics-bio-stub