Femi Ogunode

Femi Seun Ogunode

Ogunode at the 2015 Memorial Van Damme
Personal information
Nationality	Qatari
Born	(1991-05-15) 15 May 1991 (age 25) Ondo City, Nigeria
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight	72 kg (159 lb) (2014)
Sport
Sport	Athletics
Event(s)	100–400 m
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)	100 m – 9.91 (2015) 200 m – 19.97 (2015) 400 m – 45.12 (2010)
Medal record Representing  Qatar World Indoor Championships 2014 Sopot 60 m Asian Games 2010 Guangzhou 200 m 2010 Guangzhou 400 m 2014 Incheon 100 m 2014 Incheon 200 m Asian Athletics Championships 2015 Wuhan 100 m Asian Indoor Championships 2014 Hangzhou 60 m Representing Asia-Pacific Continental Cup 2014 Marrakech 100 m 2014 Marrakech 200 m

Femi Seun Ogunode (born 15 May 1991 in Ondo City) is a Nigerian-born sprint athlete who competes internationally for Qatar. His personal best of 9.91 at 100 m makes him the current holder of the Asian 100m record.

Ogunode made his international debut for Qatar at the 2010 Asian Games and won a 200 metres/400 metres double. The following year he won Asian and Arab titles over 200 m as well as 100 metres/200 m sprint titles at the 2011 Military World Games. He was a finalist in the 400 m at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics, but served a two-year ban from January 2012 to 2014 after a positive drugs test.

He won his second career double at the Asian Games in 2014, this time in the 100 m/200 m, and set an Asian record of 9.93 seconds for the former event (the second Asian man to break the 10-second barrier after fellow Qatari-Nigerian Samuel Francis). He also won bronze medals at a global level that year at the 2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships and 2014 IAAF Continental Cup.

Ogunode improved his Asian record to 9.91 to win the 100 m at the 2015 Asian Athletics Championships, he also improved is 200 meters Asian record of 19.97 (−0.4) in Brussels on 11 September 2015.

In Nigeria, Ogunode ran for University of Ibadan and qualified for the 2007 All-Africa Games and the 2008 Summer Olympics. However, the Athletics Federation of Nigeria left him off of the final rosters for both events for undisclosed reasons. Following these slights, Ogunode accepted an offer to compete internationally for Qatar.