Seye Ogunlewe (athlete), Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Nigerian male sprinter
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Place of Birth: Lagos, Nigeria
About Seye Ogunlewe (athlete)
- Adeseye "Seye" Akinola Ogunlewe (born 30 August 1991) is a Nigerian track and field sprinter who specialises in the 100 metres.
- He was a finalist in the 100 m and 4 × 100 m at the 2015 All-Africa Games.
- He won the 100 m at the Nigerian Championships in 2015 and 2016.He was born in Lagos, Nigeria, the last child of Adeseye and Kemi Ogunlewe.
- He attended Atlantic Hall School, Epe.
- He initially started out playing football but was advised to sprint by his teacher.
- He moved to Ireland in 2008 and won the Irish Schools Championships in 2009 and 2010.
- Ireland and Nigeria were in a race to get him to represent them at the World Junior Championships in 2010.
- He however eventually missed the championships.
- He is a Law and Politics graduate of the University of Essex. He placed second in the 60 m at the British Universities & Colleges Sport (BUCS) Indoor championships in 2011 behind Sven Knipphals.
- He remained the second-place finisher in 2012 and 2013 but eventually won the title in 2014.
- He was also the 2013 BUCS champion in the 100 m.
- In 2014, he was not successful in defending his title as he placed second behind Adam Gemili.Ogunlewe represented his country at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, running in the 200 m.
- He finished 4th in his heat and did not progress to the semifinals.
- He ran the anchor leg for Nigeria in the 4 × 100 m final at the 2015 Brazzaville African Games.
- The team finished second but were eventually disqualified for a faulty baton change.
- He also reached the final in the individual 100 m. At the 2016 Nigerian Championships, he successfully defended his national title.
- He won the 100 m in a personal best of 10.12 s ahead of Divine Oduduru and Ogho-oghene Egwero, and thereby qualified for the Rio Olympic Games.
- After the championships, he used social media to lament the insufficient support of athletes by Nigerian organisations.
- In 2019 he improved on his best time by recording a new personal record of 10.11.
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