Folashade Abugan

Folashade Abugan ( born December 17, 1990 in Akure ) is a Nigerian athlete who specializes in the 400 -meter run.

Career

Abugan occurred very early international appearance. At the age of just 15 years, it celebrated its first successes in the adult area. So they came at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne in the Nigerian 4 x 400 - meter relay used, which won the bronze medal. In the same year she reached at the Track World Junior Championships in Beijing, the final in the 400 -meter run, finishing in eighth place. With the season she became second.

2007 won Abugan at the Pan-African Games in Algiers her first individual medal in the adult population, as they finished third on 400 meters. They also secured with the 4 x 400 - meter relay title. Shortly after, she went to at the World Athletics Championships in Osaka in the 400 - meter dash, but did not come out the prelims.

At the Track - Africa Championships 2008 in Addis Ababa Abugan won the silver medal in the 400 - meter race and won the 4 x 400 - meter relay. Two months later, she became Junior World Champion over 400 meters in Bydgoszcz. She then competed at the Olympic Games in Beijing. There, she attended the season in seventh place and reached the 400-meter run, the semi-final round. In 2009 she won at the Africa Junior Athletics Championships in Bambous gold medals over 400 meters and in the 4 x 400 - meter relay. At the World Athletics Championships in Berlin two weeks later she was disqualified in the semifinal round in the 400 -meter run. With the 4 x 400 - meter relay, she came up to sixth place.

At the Track - Africa Championships in Nairobi in 2010 she defended her title in the relay successfully. In the 400 - meter race she finished third. In the same year she appeared in at the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi. There she first won silver medals in the 400 -meter run behind Amantle Montsho from Botswana as well as the 4 x 400 - meter relay. Both results, however, were canceled after they had been tested positive for the illegal use of testosterone in a doping control.