Sorina Nwachukwu

Sorina Nwachukwu ( born August 21, 1987 in Witten ) is a German sprinter.

The daughter of a Nigerian athletes, soccer player and a German mother grew up in Eschweiler, where she began her career at LSG Eschweiler. Since 2002 she starts 04 Leverkusen TSV Bayer.

At the Junior World Championships 2004 in Grosseto, the 400-meter runner with the German 4 x 400 - meter relay team was fourth, two years later she won at the Junior World Championships in Beijing with the season in sixth place.

After several championship titles in the Youth and Junior range Nwachukwu was founded in 2007 with Leverkusen's 4 x 400 - meter relay for the first time in the adult area, German champion. In 2008, she repeated the title with the club season, both in the hall and in the outdoor championships.

She was also in the individual competition over 400 meters and third, thus qualifying for the German relay at the Beijing Olympics, which they reached eighth place. It was, together with Denise Hinrichs, Janin Lindenberg, Michael Schrader, Raul Spank and Raphael Holzdeppe to the six athletes in the squad for Beijing, who had participated in the Junior World Championships in Beijing in 2006.

At the 2009 World Championships in Berlin Nwachukwu came into the semifinals over 400 meters, where she was eliminated in sixth of its course. In the same year she was previously the first time German champion in the 400 meters for women. Your fastest time over 400 meters is 51.53 s, run at the German Athletics Championships 2009 in Ulm.

Sorina Nwachukwu has a competition weight of 61 kg at a height of 1.75 m.