Cyril Chinedu Oriala (born 17 November 1981) is a
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
Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa. It is situated between the Sahel to the north and the Gulf of Guinea in the Atlantic Ocean to the south. It covers an area of . With Demographics of Nigeria, ...
.
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Oriala 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.
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in
Beijing
Beijing, Chinese postal romanization, previously romanized as Peking, is the capital city of China. With more than 22 million residents, it is the world's List of national capitals by population, most populous national capital city as well as ...
. He competed 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
Obinna Metu,
Onyeabor Ngwogu and
Uchenna Emedolu
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Uchenna Emedolu (born 17 September 1976) is a Nigerian retired athlete who specialised in short-distance sprints, particularly the 100 metres and the 200 metres. In 100 metres his personal best time is 9.97 seconds, achieved at t ...
. In their qualification heat they did not finish due to a mistake in the baton exchange and they were eliminated.
References
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1981 births
Living people
Olympic athletes for Nigeria
Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Nigerian male sprinters
African Games gold medalists for Nigeria
African Games gold medalists in athletics (track and field)
African Games athletes for Nigeria
Athletes (track and field) at the 1999 All-Africa Games
21st-century Nigerian sportsmen
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