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At the World Championships, Seville, 1999.
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  • World Junior Championships
    • 1st place, 200 meters - Athens, 1986
      (23.11s)
    • 3rd place, 4X100 meters - Athens, 1886
  • World Championships
    • 6th place, 400 meters - Gothenburg, 1995
      (50.77s)
    • 5th place, 400 meters - Athens, 1997
      (50.27s)
    • 4th place, 400 meters - Seville, 1999
      (50.03s)
    • 2nd place, 400 meters (World Indoors)
      Maebashi, 1999 (51.25s)
  • Olympic Games
    • 400 meters bronze - Atlanta, 1996 (49.10s)
    • 4X400 meters silver - Atlanta, 1996
    • First and only Nigerian to win double medals in one Olympics
    • First ever Nigerian to win an individual Olympic medal in track and field
  • IAAF Grand Prix Final
    • 2nd place, 400 meters - Milan, 1996 (49.73s)
    • 1st place, 400 meters - Moscow, 1998 (49.73s)
    • 2nd place, 400 meters - Doha, 2000 (50.61s)
  • Goodwill Games
    • 1st place, 400 meters - New York, 1998
      (49.89s - meet record)
    • First and only Nigerian to win individual Goodwill Games title
  • World Cup in Athletics
    • 3rd place, 400 meters - Barcelona, 1989 (51.67s)
    • 1st place, 400 meters - Johannesburg, 1998 (49.52s)
    • 2nd place, 200 meters - Johannesburg, 1998 (22.25s)
  • All African Games
    • 1st place, 400 meters - Johannesburg, 1999 (50.02s)
    • 1st place, 4X400 meters - Johannesburg, 1999
    • 2nd place, 100 and 200 meters - Nairobi, 1987
    • 1st place, 4X100 meters and 4X400 meters
      Nairobi, 1987
    • 2nd place, 400 meters - Harare, 1995
    • 1st place, 4X400 meters - Harare, 1995
  • African Championships
    • 1st place, 400 meters - Lagos, 1989
    • 1st place, 4X400 meters - Lagos, 1989
    • 1st place, 200 and 400 meters - Dakar, 1998
  • General
    • Ranked number one in the world in the 400 meters in 1998
    • Ranked number two in the world in the 200 meters in 1998 (behind Marion Jones)
    • Ran the fastest time in the world in the 400 meters in 1999 - 49.62s.
    • Ranked among top 10 in the 400 meters since 1995
    • African record holder in the 400 meters
      (49.10s)
    • Former Nigerian 800 meters record holder at
      2:04.57s - Eugene, 1997

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