Seye Ogunlewe (athlete)

He placed second in the 60 m at the British Universities & Colleges Sport (BUCS) Indoor championships in 2011 behind Sven Knipphals.^[8] He remained the second-place finisher in 2012 and 2013^[9] 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.^[10]

Ogunlewe represented his country at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, running in the 200 m.^[4] He finished 4th in his heat and did not progress to the semifinals.^[4] 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.^[11]

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.^[12] After the championships, he used social media to lament the insufficient support of athletes by Nigerian organisations.^[6] In 2019, he improved on his best time by recording a new personal record of 10.11.^[13]

• Seye Ogunlewe at World Athletics
• Seye Ogunlewe at All-Athletics.com at the Wayback Machine (archived 14 July 2016)
• Adeseye Ogunlewe at Power of 10
• Seye Ogunlewe at Olympedia
• Seye Ogunlewe at Olympics.com
• Seye Ogunlewe at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games (archived)
• Adeseye Ogunlewe at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games (archived)