Ezinne Okparaebo

Ezinne Okparaebo
Ezinne Okparaebo 2009
nation	Norway
birthday	3rd March 1988 (age 32)
place of birth	Imo , Nigeria
size	164 cm
Weight	56 kg
Career
discipline	sprint
status	active
Medal table
European Indoor Championships 0 × 1 × 1 × Junior European Championships 1 × 0 × 0 ×
European Indoor Championships silver Turin 2009 60 m bronze Paris 2011 60 m  Junior European Championships gold Hengelo 2007 100 m
last change: July 4th 2017

Ezinne Okparaebo (born March 3, 1988 in Imo ) is a Norwegian sprinter of Nigerian origin.

Athletic career

Okparaebo lives in Oslo and trains at IL i BUL . At the 2007 European Junior Championships in Hengelo , she won gold over 100 meters. She represented Norway at the 2008 Summer Olympics . She took part in the 100-meter run and was second in her lead behind Kerron Stewart with a time of 11.32 s. However, she did not reach the final.

At the European Athletics Indoor Championships 2009 in Turin , she won the silver medal in the 60-meter run. At the European Athletics Championships in Barcelona in 2010 , she set her personal best over 100 meters with 11.23 seconds. During this time she also narrowly missed the medal ranks and came in fourth place in the end.

Top performances

open air

• 100 m: 11.10 s, on August 4, 2012 in London ( Norwegian record )
• 200 m: 23.30 s, on June 2, 2012 in Florø ( Norwegian record )

Hall

• 60 m: 7.10 s on March 8, 2015 in Prague ( Norwegian record )
• 100 m: 11.42 s, on February 21, 2009 in Florø

Web links

Commons : Ezinne Okparaebo  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Ezinne okparaebo in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Ezinne Okparaebo in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )