Chidi Imoh

Chidi Imoh medal table
sprinter
Nigeria
Olympic games
silver	1992 Barcelona	4 × 100 m
Indoor world championships
bronze	1991 Seville	60 m
African Championships
gold	1984 Rabat	100 m
gold	1985 Cairo	100 m
Africa Games
gold	1987 Nairobi	100 m
Universiade
gold	1983 Edmonton	100 m
gold	1985 Kobe	100 m

Chidi Imoh (born August 27, 1963 ) is a former Nigerian athlete and sprinter . In the mid-1980s, he was the dominant African runner on the 100-meter course.

Life

At a height of 1.88 m, he had a competition weight of 77 kg. He celebrated his first successes at the 1983 Summer Universiade in Edmonton , Canada , when he won the 100-meter run at the age of nineteen . He was able to repeat this success two years later in Kobe and is still the only sprinter over this distance who was able to repeat his victory at a Universiade.

Imoh, who meanwhile started for the University of Missouri , was twice African champion and won the 1987 African Games in Nairobi . One of his career highlights was reaching third place and thus a bronze medal in the 60-meter run in 1991 at the World Indoor Championships in Seville . In the following year, he secured his country the silver medal with the 4 x 100 meter relay at the Summer Olympics in Barcelona . In 1994 Imoh was banned for four years for doping .

After completing his sports career, Imoh became a nurse in California.

Personal best

• 55 m (hall): 6.10 s
• 100 m : 10.00 s (1986)
• 200 m : 19.90 s (1985)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Doug Gillon: Officials identify doping offenders , The Herald September 17, 1994
2. ↑ Uzor Odigbo: Nigeria: Star Athletes of Yesteryears - Where Are They Now? , Daily Independent (Lagos) April 8, 2011

Web links

• Chidi Imoh in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Chidi Imoh in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Chidi Imoh in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)