Anyika Onuora

Anyika Onuora
Anyika Ounora in London 2012
Full name	Nwanyika Jenete C. "Anyika" Onuora
nation	United Kingdom of England
birthday	28th October 1984 (age 35)
place of birth	Liverpool , England
size	178 cm
Weight	76 kg
Career
discipline	sprint
society	Liverpool Harriers
Trainer	Benke Blomkvist
status	active
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × 0 × 1 × World championships 0 × 0 × 1 × Commonwealth Games 0 × 1 × 2 × Indoor world championships 0 × 0 × 1 × European championships 2 × 1 × 2 × U20 European Championships 0 × 1 × 0 ×
Olympic games bronze Rio de Janeiro 2016 4 × 400 m  World championships bronze Beijing 2015 4 × 400 m  Commonwealth Games silver Melbourne 2006 4 × 100 m bronze Glasgow 2014 4 × 100 m bronze Glasgow 2014 4 × 400 m  Indoor world championships bronze Birmingham 2018 4 × 400 m  European championships silver Gothenburg 2006 4 × 100 m gold Zurich 2014 4 × 100 m gold Amsterdam 2016 4 × 400 m bronze Amsterdam 2016 400 m bronze Berlin 2018 4 × 400 m  Junior European Championships silver Tampere 2003 4 × 100 m
last change: March 26, 2019

Nwanyika Jenete C. "Anyika" Onuora (born October 28, 1984 in Liverpool ) is a British sprinter .

Athletic career

Anyika Onuora gained her first international experience at the 2003 Junior European Championships in Tampere , where she finished fifth in the 100-meter run in 11.72 s and with the British 4 x 100-meter relay in 44.81 s Won silver medal behind France. For two years she was eliminated from the U23 European Championships in Erfurt with 24.29 seconds over 200 meters in the lead and was disqualified with the relay in the final. The following year she took part for the first time for England at the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne and reached the semi-finals there over 100 meters, in which she was eliminated with 11.46 s. In addition, she won the silver medal behind the team from Jamaica with the English relay in 43.43 seconds. Also at the European Championships in Gothenburg in August, she won the silver medal behind the Russians in 43.51 seconds. In addition, she reached the semi-finals over 100 meters and was eliminated there in 11.45 s. Then she was with the relay in 47.61 s eighth at the Athletics World Cup in Athens .

In 2011 she qualified for the first time for the World Championships in Daegu , South Korea , in which she reached the semi-finals in the 200-meter run , in which she was eliminated with 23.08 s, and failed over 100 meters in 11.41 s in the preliminary run, as with the 4 x 100 meter relay in 43.95 s. The following year she was disqualified at the European Championships in Helsinki with the relay in the preliminary run, but qualified over 100 and 200 meters for the Olympic Games in London , but did not get beyond the first round in both disciplines. At the 2013 World Championships in Moscow , too , the 200 meter drop came in the first round, in which she crossed the finish line after 23.36 seconds. At the IAAF World Relays 2014 in the Bahamas, she finished second in the 4 x 200 meter relay in 1: 29.61 min and came in the 4 x 100 meter relay in the lead Commitment. She then took part again in the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow , Scotland , where she was fourth over 200 meters in 22.64 s. In the 4 x 100 meter relay, she was used in the run-up and thus contributed to winning the bronze medal for the English team. She also won the bronze medal in the 4 x 400 meter relay in 3: 27.24 minutes behind the teams from Jamaica and Nigeria. She then won the European Championships in Zurich in 42.21 s and was second with the European team at the Athletics Continental Cup in Marrakech .

At the IAAF World Relays 2015 she secured third place in the 4 x 400 meter relay in 3: 26.38 min and also qualified over 400 meters for the World Championships in Beijing . There she reached the semi-finals , in which she was eliminated with 50.87 s. They also won the relay in 3: 23.62 min the bronze medal behind Jamaica and the United States. The following year she won the bronze medal behind the Italian Libania Grenot and Floria Gueï from France at the European Championships in Amsterdam in the individual race over 400 meters in 51.47 s . In addition, she won the relay in 3: 25.05 min before France and Italy. She then took part again in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , where she won the bronze medal behind the teams from the United States in the final in 3: 25.88 min with the relay team consisting of Eilidh Doyle , Onuora, Emily Diamond and Christine Ohuruogu States and Jamaica won. The IAAF World Relays in 2017 it was 400-meter relay 4 times used in the lead, in the final took the British team ranked 4th in August she divorced at the World Championships in London with 52.58 s already in advance of . In 2018 she contributed to winning the bronze medal at the World Indoor Championships in Birmingham through her work in the run-up . This was followed by her third participation in the Commonwealth Games in the Australian Gold Coast , in which she came over 400 meters to the semi-finals, in which she was eliminated with 52.73 s. With the English season she finished fourth in 3: 27.21 minutes. In August, she retired at the European Championships in Berlin with 51.77 seconds in the semifinals and secured the bronze medal behind Poland and France in 3: 27.40 minutes.

In 2013 Onuora became British champion in the 200-meter run and in 2015 and 2018 over 400 meters.

Personal best

• 100 meters: 11.18 s, May 29, 2011 in Zeulenroda
  • 60 meters (hall): 7.31 s, January 29, 2006 in Bratislava
• 200 meters: 22.64 s, July 31, 2014 in Glasgow
  • 200 meters (hall): 24.21 s, 19 January 2008 in Sheffield
• 400 meters: 50.87 s, August 25, 2015 in Beijing
  • 400 meters (hall): 53.13 s, February 17, 2018 in Birmingham

Web links

Commons : Anyika Onuora  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Anyika onuora in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Anyika Onuora in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Athlete portrait at The Power of Ten

Individual evidence

1. ^ Result list of the U20 European Championships in Tampere 2003
2. ^ Result list of the U23 European Championships in Erfurt 2005