Chinedu Odozor-Onikeku

Chinedu Odozor-Onikeku
nation	Nigeria
birthday	24th December 1977 (age 42)
Career
discipline	Long jump
Best performance	6.53 m
status	resigned
End of career	August 10, 2006
Medal table
Africa Games 0 × 0 × 1 × African Championships 0 × 1 × 2 × U20 African Championships 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Africa Games bronze Abuja 2003 6.52 m  African Championships silver Dakar 1998 6.45 m silver Radès 2002 100 m bronze Radés 2002 6.39 m Junior African Championships gold Bouaké 1995 5.92 m
last change: June 19, 2020

Chinedu Odozor-Onikeku (born December 24, 1977 as Chinedu Odozor ) is a former Nigerian athlete who specialized in the long jump , but also competed in the sprint .

Athletic career

Chinedu Odozor-Onikeku gained her first international experience in 1995 when she won the gold medal at the Junior African Championships, which was held for the first time, with a width of 5.92 m and reached the final in the 200-meter run , but did not start there. In 1998 she first took part in the African Championships in Dakar , where she won the silver medal behind her compatriot Chioma Ajunwa with 6.45 m . The following year she finished fifth at the African Games in Johannesburg with 6.45 m and in 2002 she was fourth at the Commonwealth Games in Manchester with a jump of 6.39 m. Then she won the silver medal in the 100-meter run behind her compatriot Endurance Ojokolo at the African Championships in Radès in 11.32 seconds, supported by the wind , after the originally runner-up Cameroonian Myriam Léonie Mani was disqualified for a doping violation. In addition, she secured the bronze medal in the long jump with 6.39 m behind the Cameroonian Françoise Mbango Etone and Kéné Ndoye from Senegal.

In 2003 she took part again in the African Games in Abuja , where she won the bronze medal behind her compatriots Esther Aghatise and Grace Umelo with a width of 6.52 m . The following year she reached sixth place at the African Championships in Brazzaville with 5.90 m and in 2006 she was fifth at the African Championships in Bambous with 6.01 m. She then ended her career as a track and field athlete at the age of 29.

In 1998 and 2002, Odozor-Onikeku became the Nigerian champion in the long jump.

Personal best

• 100 meters: 11.39 s (−0.2 m / s), July 13, 2002 in Germering
• 200 meters: 23.44 s (−2.8 m / s), May 3, 2000 in Shizuoka
• Long jump: 6.53 m (0.0 m / s), July 18, 1998 in Lagos

Web links

• Chinedu Odozor-Onikeku in the database of World Athletics (English)