Oluyemi Kayode
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| Born | 7 July 1968 |
| Died | 1 October 1994 (aged 26) |
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Oluyemi KayodeAudio file "Oluyemi_Kayode.wav" not found (7 July 1968 – 1 October 1994) was a Nigerian sprinter.
Kayode was an All-American sprinter for the BYU Cougars track and field team, placing runner-up in the 200 metres at the 1993 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships.[1]
Kayode won the silver medal in 4 × 100 m relay at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, Spain, together with teammates Chidi Imoh, Olapade Adeniken and Davidson Ezinwa. He also won a silver medal in 200 metres 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 1994 Commonwealth Games.
Death
[edit | edit source]Kayode died in a car accident in Northern Arizona in October 1994.[2] A stadium in Ado-Ekiti is named in his honor.[3]
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Oluyemi Kayode at databaseOlympics
- Oluyemi Kayode at the Commonwealth Games Federation Archived 12 September 2021 at the Wayback Machine
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- 1968 births
- 1994 deaths
- Nigerian men sprinters
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1994 Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth Games athletes 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
- 20th-century Nigerian sportsmen
- Deaths of competitors in the sport of athletics
- BYU Cougars men's track and field athletes
- Nigerian athletics biography stubs
- Nigerian Olympic medalist stubs