Agnes Osazuwa (born 26 June 1989 in

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) is a female

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sprint athlete who competes internationally for

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.Athlete biography: Agnes Osazuwa
beijing2008.cn, ret: 30 Aug 2008 Osazuwa represented Nigeria at the 2008 Summer Olympics in

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competing at the 4x100 metres relay together with Gloria Kemasuode,

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 Oly ...

and

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she also took part in the 4x100 metres relay. In their first round heat they placed fourth behind

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and

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. 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

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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,

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, thereby promoting Nigeria to the silver medal position.

Achievements

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Agnes Osazuwa at NBC Olympics website
1989 births Living people Nigerian female sprinters Olympic athletes of 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 competitors for Nigeria Olympic female sprinters {{Nigeria-athletics-bio-stub