Denise Ephraim

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Denise Ephraim athletics
nation NauruNauru Nauru
birthday 1971
Career
Best performance 13.64 s ( 100 m )
28.32 s ( 200 m )
status resigned

Denise Ephraim (* 1971 ), married Denise Jones (also: Jone ), is a former Nauruan sprinter . At the World Athletics Championships in 1987 , she represented her home country together with Rick Hiram .

life and career

In July 1986, Ephraim was the only Nauruan participant to take part in the first Junior World Championships in the Olympic Stadium in Athens ; both over 100 meters (13.70 s) and over 200 meters (28.80 s) she was the slowest of all runners and was eliminated from the competition after the heats. On August 29, 1987, she finished seventh and last at the World Championships in the Olympic Stadium in Rome in the third heat over 100 meters in a time of 13.69 seconds. Of the 51 participants in the preliminary runs, only the Sudanese Moutwakil Abdelkarim and the Maldivian Jyhan Hassan-Didi were slower. At the South Pacific Mini Games in August 1989 in Nukuʻalofa (Tonga), Ephraim did not get beyond the heats over 100 meters (13.64 s) as well as over 200 meters (28.32 s). In December 1993, she retired from the South Pacific Mini Games in Port Vila (Vanuatu) again after the run over 100 meters (14.46 s). In 2006 she was elected treasurer to the board of the Nauru Basketball Association and the following year she was elected treasurer of the Nauru Athletics Association . Ephraim is from Boe District and has been married to Gerard Jones since February 1990 ; Rosa Mystique Jones is the couple's daughter.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ World Junior Athletics History ("WJAH"). ( Memento from April 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ 2nd IAAF World Championships in Athletics: 100 Meters Women. In: iaaf.org , accessed October 10, 2019.
  3. ^ III South Pacific Mini Games. In: sportstg.com (1989), p. 14.
  4. ^ 4th Mini South Pacific Games. In: sportstg.com (1993), p. 10.
  5. ^ New Nauru Federation Executive. In: australiabasket.com (April 28, 2006).
  6. ^ Nauru Amateur Athletic Association: Staff Members. ( Memento from April 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ^ Republic of Nauru Government Gazette , GNNo. 81/1990 ( online ), p. 5.
personal data
SURNAME Ephraim, Denise
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jones, Denise (married name); Jone, Denise
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nauruan athlete
DATE OF BIRTH 1971