Oluyemi Kayode (7 July 1968 – 1 October 1994) was a Nigerian sprinter. Kayode won the silver medal in 4 x 100 m relay at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, Spain, together with teammates Chidi Imoh, Olapade Adeniken and

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. He also won a silver medal in

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at the 1993 African Championships and was Nigerian national champion on that distance in 1993 and 1994 respectively. He finished sixth in the 200 metres at the

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Death

Kayode died in a car accident in Northern

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in October 1994. A

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in Ado-Ekiti is named in his honor.

References

External links

Oluyemi Kayode at databaseOlympicsOluyemi Kayode at the Commonwealth Games Federation
1968 births 1994 deaths Yoruba sportspeople Nigerian male sprinters Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1994 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games competitors for Nigeria Olympic athletes for Nigeria Olympic silver medalists for Nigeria Road incident deaths in Arizona Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists in athletics (track and field) 20th-century Nigerian people {{Nigeria-Olympic-medalist-stub