Endurance Ojokolo

Endurance Ojokolo
nation	Nigeria
birthday	29th September 1975 (age 44)
place of birth	London ,  UK
size	158 cm
Weight	54 kg
Career
discipline	100 meter run
Best performance	11.06 s
status	resigned
End of career	June 1, 2008
Medal table
Africa Games 2 × 2 × 1 × African Championships 5 × 2 × 1 × U20 African Championships 2 × 1 × 0 ×
Africa Games gold Johannesburg 1999 4 × 100 m bronze Johannesburg 1999 100 m gold Abuja 2003 4 × 100 m silver Abuja 2003 100 m silver Algiers 2007 4 × 100 m  African Championships gold Dakar 1998 4 × 100 m silver Dakar 1998 100 m gold Radès 2002 100 m gold Brazzaville 2004 100 m gold Brazzaville 2004 4 × 100 m silver Bambous 2006 4 × 100 m bronze Bambous 2006 100 m gold Addis Ababa 2008 4 × 100 m Junior African Championships gold Algiers 1994 5.56 m gold Algiers 1994 4 × 100 m silver Algiers 1994 4 × 400 m
last change: June 20, 2020

Endurance Ojokolo (born September 29, 1975 in London ) is a former Nigerian sprinter who specializes in the 100-meter run .

Athletic career

Endurance Ojokolo gained first international experience in 1992 when she was eliminated from the Junior World Championships in Seoul with the Nigerian 4 x 100 meter relay with 46.58 seconds in the lead. Two years later she won the first ever Junior African Championships in Algiers with 5.56 m in the long jump and in 46.15 s in the 4 x 100 m relay and secured herself with the 4 x 400 m relay in 3: 45.41 min the silver medal. In addition, she finished fourth in the 100-meter run in 11.90 s and fifth over 200 meters in 25.21 s. She then started at the Junior World Championships in Lisbon , where she reached the quarter-finals over 100 meters and was eliminated there with 11.81 s and did not reach the final in the long jump with 5.64 m. With the 4 x 400 meter relay, 3: 49.16 minutes were also not enough for a place in the final.

After a two-year break from competition, Ojokolo started the 60-meter run at the World Indoor Championships in Paris in 1997 , where he finished fifth in 7.38 s. In the same year, she also qualified for the first time for the World Championships in Athens and was eliminated there with 11.53 s in the quarter-finals and reached seventh place in the Nigerian 4 x 100 meter relay in 43.27 s. The following year she won the African Championships for the first time in 43.75 s in the 4 x 100 meter relay and won the silver medal over 100 meters in 11.08 s behind her compatriot Mary Onyali . Then she was at the Athletics World Cup in Johannesburg in 42.91 s fourth with the African relay. In 1999 she reached seventh place over 60 meters at the World Indoor Championships in Maebashi in 7.19 s. In mid-August she reached the quarter-finals over 100 meters at the World Championships in Seville , where she was eliminated with 11.14 seconds. In addition, she was disqualified with the relay in the run-up. She then won the African Games in Johannesburg in 43.28 s with the relay and won the bronze medal over 100 meters in 11.25 s behind her compatriot Mercy Nku and Myriam Léonie Mani from Cameroon.

At the IAAF World Indoor Championships in 2001 in Lisbon, she was eighth in the 60-meter run in 7.23 s and in the summer she was eliminated at the World Championships in Edmonton, Canada with 11.20 s in the semifinals. In addition, she reached fourth place with the relay in 42.52 s. The following year, she won the African Championships in Radès in 11.15 s supported by the wind and did not finish with the relay. Then she was at the World Cup in Madrid in 11.26 s third over 100 meters behind the Jamaican Tayna Lawrence and Susanthika Jayasinghe from Sri Lanka. With the season she originally reached second place; however, the result was canceled because of a doping offense by one of her colleagues. In 2003 she was eliminated from the World Championships near Paris with 11.55 seconds in the quarter-finals and did not start the relay for a short time. She then won the African Games in Abuja at home with a new player record of 43.04 s and won the silver medal over 100 meters in 11.26 s behind her compatriot Onyali-Omagbemi. In addition, she then won the Afro-Asian Games in Hyderabad in 11.45 s over 100 meters. In 2004 she was eliminated from the World Indoor Championships in Budapest with 7.44 s in the run over 60 meters. She then defended her title over 100 meters at the African Championships in Brazzaville in 11.33 s and also won the relay in 44.32 s. In addition, she qualified for the Olympic Games in Athens, where she was eliminated in the individual competition with 11.35 s in the quarter- finals. But with the relay she reached the finals and finished seventh in 43.92 s.

In 2005 she reached the semi-finals over 100 meters at the World Championships in Helsinki , in which she was eliminated with 11.60 s, while she came in seventh with the relay after 43.25 s. The following year she was eliminated from the World Indoor Championships in Moscow with 7.53 s over 60 meters in the semifinals. She started just one week at the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne and was eliminated there with 11.61 s in the semi-finals over 100 meters and was fourth in the relay in 44.37 s. At the beginning of August she won the silver medal at the African Championships in Bambous in 44.52 s with the relay behind the team from Ghana and over 100 meters she won the bronze medal behind the Ghanaian Vida Anim and Geraldine Pillay from South Africa in 11.95 s . At the World Cup in Athens in mid-September, she finished third in the relay in 43.61 seconds. In 2007 she took part with the relay again in the Africa Games in Algiers and won the silver medal there in 43.85 s behind Ghana. With the relay she also started at the World Championships in Osaka , but did not reach the final with 43.58 s. The following year she won the African Championships in Addis Ababa in 43.79 s with the relay. Shortly thereafter, she played her last official competition in Brazzaville and ended her career as a track and field athlete at the age of 32.

In the years from 1997 to 1999, 2001 and from 2003 to 2005, Ojokolo was the Nigerian champion in the 100-meter run.

Personal best

• 100 meters: 11.06 s (+1.1 m / s), August 17, 2001 in Zurich
  • 60 meters (hall): 7.08 s, March 7, 1999 in Maebashi
• 200 meters: 23.09 s (+0.8 m / s), June 16, 1999 in Athens
  • 200 meters (hall): 24.51 s, January 27, 2001 in Karlsruhe

Web links

• Endurance Ojokolo in the database of World Athletics (English)