Education
Born in Lagos, Odumosu attended Toybat High before moving to the United States to study at the University of South Alabama.
Born in Lagos, Odumosu attended Toybat High before moving to the United States to study at the University of South Alabama.
She represented Nigeria at the 2008 Summer Olympics and competed at the World Championships in Athletics in 2007 and 2009. She still holds the Nigerian record in the 400 m hurdles, after improving on her personal best to 54.40 seconds during the 2012 London Olympics semi-finals. College athletics
She reached the National Collegiate Athletic Association Championships final that year, but was disqualified due to knocking over a hurdle.
Global competition
Odumosu represented Nigeria internationally for the first time in August 2006, taking part in the World Junior Championships.
She finished fifth in the 400 m hurdles final but managed to help the Nigerian women"s 4×400 metres relay team (including Folashade Abugan, Joy Eze and Sekinat Adesanyato) the silver medal, setting a new African junior record of 3:30.84 for the event. At the 2007 World Championships (her first senior global championships) she ran in the 400 m hurdles, but was eliminated in the heats stage.
She made her first Olympic appearance in August 2008, running the 400 metres sprint in Beijing. She set a personal best 51.39 seconds to progress through the heats, but she was eliminated in the semi-finals.
She ran in the 4×400 metres relay and reached the final where the Nigerians finished in seventh placed.
At the 2009 World Championships she reached the 400 m hurdles semi-finals and was sixth overall with the women"s relay team Odumosu set a Nigerian record at the Herculis meeting in July 2010, running 54.68 seconds for fifth in the hurdles. Along with Lambarki, Odumosu was selected to represent the African team in the 400 m hurdles at the 2010 IAAF Continental Cup.
She improved her national record to 54.59 seconds at the competition and secured the silver medal behind Jamaican Nickiesha Wilson, running for the Americas.
She returned to defend her hurdles title at the 2010 African Championships, but she had to content herself with the silver medal behind Hayat Lambarki.