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Favour Ofili
Favour Ofili (born 31 December 2002) is a Turkish sprinter who competes in the 100 m, 200 m and 4x100 m relay. Ofili made her Olympic debut in women's 200m at the 2024 Paris Olympics, where she finished sixth in the finals. In 2025, Ofili switched her sporting allegiance from Nigeria to Turkey.
She won a silver medal for the 400 metres at the 2019 African Games. Ofili won silver for the 200 metres at the 2022 Commonwealth Games. She was the 2021 World Under-20 Championship bronze medallist in the 200 m.
Ofili is the African indoor record holder in the 200 m event and holds a Nigerian record (also at U20 level) over the distance with a time of 21.96 seconds, making her the first Nigerian woman in history (and second African woman) to break the 22-second barrier. She also ran 10.93 seconds in the 100 m in April 2022, becoming the first female NCAA athlete to run sub 11s and sub 22s.
Ofili is the current 150 m world record holder having broken the world record on Saturday 17th May 2025 at the Adidas Atlanta City Games in a time of 15.85s. By so doing, she also became the first woman ever to run 150 metres in under 16 seconds breaking Shaunae Miller-Uibo's previous record of 16.23s.
Favour Ofili began athletics in 2014 while in high school in Delta State, Nigeria. Her high school coach, Anne Otutu, helped ignite a firm belief in her talent. She later trained in Port Harcourt with coach George Obiano until she moved to the United States.
Ofili was named the female athlete of the meet at the 2019 African Under-18 Championships after winning the 200 and 400 metres with new personal bests in both. Still 16, she represented her country at the World Relays in Yokohama a month later, running in the 4 × 100 m and 4 × 400 m relays. She won the 200 m and finished second behind Patience George in the 400 m at the Nigerian Championships in July, running under 52 seconds at the longer event for the first time. Ofili bettered this mark at the African Games a month later, finishing second with 51.68 s and qualifying for the World Athletics Championships in Doha. She also anchored the Nigerian team (Kemi Francis, Patience George and Blessing Oladoye) to a gold medal in the women's 4 x 400 m relay at the Games. This secured a second senior medal for the young athlete. As the youngest athlete at the World Championships in September, she improved her 400 m personal best to 51.51 s but was eliminated in the semi-finals.
Ofili earned a scholarship at the Louisiana State University (USA) in 2020, after her performance at the 2019 World Championships, which caught the attention of sprint coach Dennis Shaver, who became her personal coach. On 27 February 2021, she set an African indoor record in the 200 m with a time of 22.75 s at the SEC Indoor Championship in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
Despite having qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics, Ofili was ruled out of Tokyo 2020 after arriving in Japan due to the Nigerian federation failing to ensure they met the minimum drug-testing requirements. Nine other athletes were also disqualified. She was able to participate at the World U20 Championships a few weeks later in Nairobi, where she won bronze in the 200 m and two medals for relays, with her mark in her individual event being the third-fastest ever by a U20 woman.
Favour Ofili
Favour Ofili (born 31 December 2002) is a Turkish sprinter who competes in the 100 m, 200 m and 4x100 m relay. Ofili made her Olympic debut in women's 200m at the 2024 Paris Olympics, where she finished sixth in the finals. In 2025, Ofili switched her sporting allegiance from Nigeria to Turkey.
She won a silver medal for the 400 metres at the 2019 African Games. Ofili won silver for the 200 metres at the 2022 Commonwealth Games. She was the 2021 World Under-20 Championship bronze medallist in the 200 m.
Ofili is the African indoor record holder in the 200 m event and holds a Nigerian record (also at U20 level) over the distance with a time of 21.96 seconds, making her the first Nigerian woman in history (and second African woman) to break the 22-second barrier. She also ran 10.93 seconds in the 100 m in April 2022, becoming the first female NCAA athlete to run sub 11s and sub 22s.
Ofili is the current 150 m world record holder having broken the world record on Saturday 17th May 2025 at the Adidas Atlanta City Games in a time of 15.85s. By so doing, she also became the first woman ever to run 150 metres in under 16 seconds breaking Shaunae Miller-Uibo's previous record of 16.23s.
Favour Ofili began athletics in 2014 while in high school in Delta State, Nigeria. Her high school coach, Anne Otutu, helped ignite a firm belief in her talent. She later trained in Port Harcourt with coach George Obiano until she moved to the United States.
Ofili was named the female athlete of the meet at the 2019 African Under-18 Championships after winning the 200 and 400 metres with new personal bests in both. Still 16, she represented her country at the World Relays in Yokohama a month later, running in the 4 × 100 m and 4 × 400 m relays. She won the 200 m and finished second behind Patience George in the 400 m at the Nigerian Championships in July, running under 52 seconds at the longer event for the first time. Ofili bettered this mark at the African Games a month later, finishing second with 51.68 s and qualifying for the World Athletics Championships in Doha. She also anchored the Nigerian team (Kemi Francis, Patience George and Blessing Oladoye) to a gold medal in the women's 4 x 400 m relay at the Games. This secured a second senior medal for the young athlete. As the youngest athlete at the World Championships in September, she improved her 400 m personal best to 51.51 s but was eliminated in the semi-finals.
Ofili earned a scholarship at the Louisiana State University (USA) in 2020, after her performance at the 2019 World Championships, which caught the attention of sprint coach Dennis Shaver, who became her personal coach. On 27 February 2021, she set an African indoor record in the 200 m with a time of 22.75 s at the SEC Indoor Championship in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
Despite having qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics, Ofili was ruled out of Tokyo 2020 after arriving in Japan due to the Nigerian federation failing to ensure they met the minimum drug-testing requirements. Nine other athletes were also disqualified. She was able to participate at the World U20 Championships a few weeks later in Nairobi, where she won bronze in the 200 m and two medals for relays, with her mark in her individual event being the third-fastest ever by a U20 woman.