Seun Adigun

Seun Adigun in our words

She is one of the Nigerian female bobsleigh athletes who participated in the 2018 Olympic bobsleigh event in South Korea. She was birthed in the year 1987 and grew up in Chicago, Illinois.

As of the time of her participating in this sport she was studying at both Texas Chiropractic College and as well as the University of Houston where she is studying masters of Science in exercise health.

In the year 2010, she made the country proud by winning a medal for Nigeria at the African Athletics Championship which was held in Nairobi. She competed at the 2011 International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) World Championship held in Daegu and also represented Nigeria at the 2012 London Olympic Games as a 100m hurdler and ran for the University of Houston, Texas.

This amazing athlete took up bobsleigh in the year 2015 with her friends from athletics after watching the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi. She was qualified for the 2018 Olympic Winter Games held in Pyeongchang as she represented Nigeria in the female bobsleigh event. She is the founder of Nigeria bobsled team after retiring from track and field event.

From hurdler to bobsled pilot

Born Moriam Seun Adigun in Chicago on 3 January 1987 to Nigerian parents, she studied at the University of Houston and ran the 100m hurdles for Nigeria, winning the African title in 2010 and All-Africa Games gold in 2011 before competing at the London 2012 Olympics.

After watching the Sochi 2014 Winter Games she switched to bobsleigh, built a wooden practice sled called Maeflower, recruited Ngozi Onwumere and Akuoma Omeoga and founded the Nigerian programme in 2016. At PyeongChang 2018 she drove Africa’s first Olympic bobsleigh to 19th place, and the IOC recognised her as the first African to compete at both the Summer and Winter Olympics.

Seun Adigun today

A Doctor of Chiropractic from Texas Chiropractic College, she is the technical director of the Bobsled and Skeleton Federation of Nigeria, a Special Olympics Global Ambassador and, since 2024, a Special Olympics board member. She was Nigeria’s flag bearer and team doctor at Beijing 2022.