![]() Olajumoke Bodunrin (in background) collapsed from exhaustion at the end of the 400 metre race at the 1968 Summer Olympics. | ||||||||||||
Personal information | ||||||||||||
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Born | Odo-Asanyin, Ogun State, Nigeria [1] | 7 February 1945|||||||||||
Height | 1.52 m (5 ft 0 in) | |||||||||||
Weight | 44 kg (97 lb) | |||||||||||
Sport | ||||||||||||
Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||
Sprint | 100 m, 400 m | |||||||||||
Achievements and titles | ||||||||||||
Personal best(s) | 100 m – 11.71 (1968) 400 m – 56.1 (1968) [1] | |||||||||||
Medal record
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Olajumoke Bodunrin (born 7 February 1945) is a retired Nigerian sprinter. [2] Regarded as "Africa's fastest woman" during her career, [3] Olajumoke claimed gold at the 1965 All-Africa Games in Brazzaville, Congo before going on to represent Nigeria at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico. [4]