Christine Ohuruogu

Christine Ohuruogu
Ohuruogu at the 2008 Olympics
Full name	Christine Ijeoma Ohuruogu
nation	United Kingdom
birthday	17th May 1984 (age 36)
place of birth	London
size	175 cm
Weight	70 kg
Career
discipline	sprint
Best performance	49.61 s ( 400 m )
society	Newham and Essex Beagles
status	active
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 1 × 0 × World championships 2 × 0 × 4 × Indoor World Cup 1 × 0 × 1 × Indoor European Championships 1 × 0 × 0 × U23 European Championship 0 × 2 × 0 × Commonwealth Games 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Olympic games gold Beijing 2008 400 m silver London 2012 400 m bronze London 2016 4 × 400 m  World championships bronze Helsinki 2005 4 × 400 m gold Osaka 2007 400 m bronze Osaka 2007 4 × 400 m gold Moscow 2013 400 m bronze Moscow 2013 4 × 400 m bronze Beijing 2015 4 × 400 m  Indoor world championships gold Istanbul 2012 4 × 400 m bronze Sopot 2014 4 × 400 m European Indoor Championships gold Gothenburg 2013 4 × 400 m U23 European Championships silver Erfurt 2005 400 m silver Erfurt 2005 4 × 400 m  Commonwealth Games gold Melbourne 2006 400 m
last change: March 9, 2014

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 the London borough of Stratford . She played netball in her youth , only started athletics at the age of 16 and finally switched to her in 2003. Right away she was third at the 2003 Junior European Championships. At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens , she failed in the semifinals, but came in fourth with the 4 x 400 meter relay .

At the 2005 World Championships in Helsinki there was bronze for the British season in the cast Donna Fraser , Catherine Murphy , Ohuruogu, Lee McConnell ; in the individual competition, however, came out again in the semifinals. At the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, she won bronze in 50.28 s. In the summer, a one-year ban was imposed on her because she had missed three doping tests since October 2005 . An originally imposed ban on their association for the Olympic Games , however, was later lifted by an arbitration tribunal.

Shortly after her suspension ended on August 5, 2007, she started at the World Championships in Osaka and won the title with her personal best of 49.61 s. With the British relay she won bronze. A year later, Ohuruogu won the gold medal over 400 meters at the Beijing Olympics . In 49.62 s she was just ahead of Shericka Williams from Jamaica and the American favorite Sanya Richards .

At the 2009 World Championships in Berlin Ohuruogu came in fifth in the individual and fourth in the relay. In 2011 she started at the World Championships in Daegu , but she made a false start in the run-up and was disqualified. In 2012 she became indoor world champion with the relay . At the Olympic Games in London she ran for a silver medal.

In March 2013 she won the gold medal in the 4-by-400-meter relay at the 2013 European Indoor Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden . In the same year she became world champion in Moscow with the new British record of 49.41 s. In addition, she won the bronze medal with the relay, as well as at the 2015 World Championships in Beijing . At the 2016 Olympic Games in London , she won another bronze medal with the 4 x 400 meter relay.

Christine Ohuruogu has a competition weight of 70 kg with a height of 1.75 m and competes for the Newham and Essex Beagles club. She graduated from University College London with a degree in Linguistics in 2005 .

Personal best

• 100 meters: 11.35 s, May 4, 2008 in Irvine
• 200 meters: 22.85 s on June 1, 2009 in Hengelo
• 400 meters: 49.41 s, August 12, 2013 in Moscow

Web links

Commons : Christine Ohuruogu  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Christine Ohuruogu in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Christine Ohuruogu in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Christine Ohuruogu on sporting-heroes.net
• Mirth and melancholy of a dreamer named Ohuruogu , portrait of Donald McRae in the Guardian , August 2, 2008

Individual evidence

1. ↑ BBC : Brits to watch: Christine Ohuruogu , August 4, 2008
2. ↑ Leichtathletik.de: Christine Ohuruogu receives the right to start at the Olympic Games , November 27, 2007
3. ↑ HDsports.at: Bolt triumphs with Olympic record , August 5, 2012