Christine Ohuruogu

Ohuruogu at the 2008 Olympic Games

Christine Ijeoma Ohuruogu MBE ( born May 17, 1984 in London) is a British sprinter. She is world champion and Olympic champion in the 400 -meter run.

Life

The daughter of Nigerian immigrants grew up in London's Stratford. She played in her youth netball, began with 16 years with the Athletics and moving in 2003 to her final round. Right away she was third. At the 2004 Olympics in Athens, she failed at the Junior European Championships 2003 in the semifinals, but came with the 4 x 400 - meter relay team to fourth place.

At the World Championships in Helsinki in 2005 there was for the British squadron in the occupation of Donna Fraser, Catherine Murphy, Ohuruogu, Lee McConnell bronze; in individual competition came against it again in the semifinals the corner. At the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, she won bronze in 50.28 s in the summer a one-year ban was imposed on them because they had missed three doping controls in 2005 since October. One original of imposed spell of their association for Olympic Games, however, was later overturned by a court of arbitration.

Shortly after its lock ended on August 5, 2007, she competed at the World Championships in Osaka and won the title with her personal best of 49.61 s, and the British squadron, she won bronze. A year later, Ohuruogu won the gold medal over 400 meters at the Olympic Games in Beijing. In 49.62 s it was just before Shericka Williams of Jamaica and the U.S. favorite Sanya Richards.

At the 2009 World Championships Ohuruogu came in at number five in singles and fourth in the relay. In 2011 she competed at the World Championships in Daegu, but it underwent during preprocessing a false start, and thus she was disqualified. In 2012 she was with the squadron World Indoor champion. At the Olympic Games in London, she ran to the silver medal.

In March 2013, it won the gold medal in the 4 x 400 -meter relay at the European Athletics Indoor Championships 2013 in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Christine Ohuruogu has at a height of 1.75 m, a competition weight of 70 kg, and starts for the club Newham and Essex Beagles. She graduated in 2005 studying linguistics at University College London from.

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