Folashade Abigeal Abugan (born 17 December 1990) is a Nigerian sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres. She was the 400 m bronze medalist at the 2007 All-Africa Games and improved to the silver medal at the 2008 African Championships, where she set a personal best time of 50.89 seconds. She won gold medals at the 2008 World Junior Championships in Athletics and the 2009 African Junior Athletics Championships.
She appeared at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi and won two silver medals for Nigeria in the 400 m and in 4x400 m relay. However, Abugan was disqualified and banned after failing a drugs test and testing positive for testosterone prohormone in her 'A' sample. She waived the right to have her B sample analysed.Commonwealth Games 2010: Third Nigerian tests positive. BBC Sport (15 October 2010). Retrieved on 2010-11-27.
Achievements Representing 2006Commonwealth GamesMelbourne, Australia 2nd4 × 400 m relay3:31.83World Junior ChampionshipsBeijing, China 8th400 m52.87 2nd4 × 400 m relay3:30.84 AJR2007All-Africa GamesAlgiers, Algeria 3rd400 m51.44 PB 1st4 × 400 m relay3:29.742008African ChampionshipsAddis Ababa, Ethiopia 2nd400 m50.89 PB 1st4 × 400 m relay3:30.07World Junior ChampionshipsBydgoszcz, Poland 1st400 m51.842009African Junior Athletics ChampionshipsBambous, Mauritius 1st400 m52.02 CRDQ4 × 400 m2010Commonwealth GamesNew Delhi, IndiaDQ400 mDQ4 × 400 m
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