Uchenna Emedolu
Uchenna Emedolu ( born September 17, 1976 in Anambra State ) is a Nigerian sprinter.
He played in his first youth football. After sporting success failed to materialize there, he focused entirely on athletics from 2000, which he had previously operated on the side. He managed to qualify for participation in the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney. In the 200 -meter run, he reached the quarter- final round. With the Nigerian 4 x 100 - meter relay team he left in the semifinals.
Now already experienced, he reached at the World Athletics Championships 2001 in Edmonton, both in the 100 -meter run as well as more than 200 m semi-final round. The breakthrough came in 2002. At the Commonwealth Games in Manchester and at the African Championships in Tunis, he won the 100m silver medal each. In the same year he became the first African in Madrid 100 - meter race - winner at the IAAF World Cup.
At the World Athletics Championships in Paris in 2003, he took over 100 m to over 200 m in the sixth and eighth place. The Pan-African Games in Abuja, he won the 200 - meter dash gold and 100 -meter run in a personal best of 9.97 s silver.
The greatest success of his career, he celebrated at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. Together with Olusoji Fasuba, Aaron Egbele Deji Aliu and he was a member of the Nigerian 4 x 100 - meter relay team that won the bronze medal behind the s teams from Great Britain and the United States in a time of 38.23. In the 100 -meter run Emedolu reached the semifinal round.
In 2005 he competed at the World Championships in Helsinki over 100 m and 200 m, but missed each the final. At the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, he was about 100 m and about 200 m Fourth sixth. In the same year he was in Bambous African champions in the 200 - meter race and won the silver medal in the 100 -meter run.
In 2007 he was able to win the 100 m bronze medal at the Pan-African Games in Algiers. At the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008, he took up in the 100 -meter run, but failed in the first round. Even with the 4 x 100 - meter relay, he could not reach the final.
In addition, he was four times Champion Nigerian 200 -meter run (2001-2003, 2006) and once in the 100 -meter run ( 2005).
Uchenna Emedolu has a competition weight of 75 kg at a height of 1.78 m.