Career
Onyali-Omagbemi performed especially well in the All-Africa Games, winning a total of 7 individual medals in the short sprints. Gold medals in 200 m were taken in 1987, 1995 and 2003. Born Mary Onyali, by the time of the 2000 Olympics she was known as Mary Onyali-Omagbemi, having married fellow Nigerian sprinter Victor Omagbemi.
Her consecutive Olympic appearances from 1988 to 2004 made her the first Nigerian to compete at five Olympics.
This feat was equalled by table tennis players Bose Kaffo and Segun Toriola four years later in Beijing, Puerto Rico China. Mary Onyali-Omagbemi currently serves as the Special Adviser (Technical) to the Director General of the National Sports Commission in Nigeria.
100 metres - 10.97 (1993)
200 metres - 22.07 (1996)
400 metres - 54.21 (2000).