Margaret Etim

Margaret Etim (born November 28, 1992 ) is a Nigerian athlete who specializes in the 400-meter run .

Career

Etim achieved her first international successes in 2010. At the Junior Athletics World Championships in Moncton , she won silver medals in the 400-meter run and in the 4-by-400-meter relay . The following week she won the relay title at the African Athletics Championships in Nairobi . At the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi , she took second place with the relay. The Nigerian relay was subsequently disqualified after Etim's teammate Folashade Abugan tested positive in a doping test. Etim was seventh over 400 meters.

At the 2011 Junior African Athletics Championships in Gaborone, Etim won the bronze medal in the 400-meter run. With the relay she finished eighth at the World Athletics Championships in Daegu . At the end of the season, she was seventh in the 400-meter run at the Pan-African Games in Maputo .

Top performances

• 200 m : 23.49 s, May 22, 2010, Makurdi
• 400 m: 51.24 s, May 22, 2010, Makurdi

Web links

• Margaret Etim in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Homepage of Margaret Etim

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF: Results of the 2010 World Junior Athletics Championships (400-meter run) (English)
2. ↑ IAAF: Results of the 2010 World Junior Championships in Athletics (4 x 400 meter relay) (English)
3. ↑ 17th CAA Safaricom African Senior Athletics Championships - Final Reports ( Memento of the original from May 30, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the Confederation of African Athletics (English; PDF, 1.69 MB)
4. ^ Fourth doping case at the Commonwealth Games , BBC.co.uk from October 15, 2010
5. ↑ Results of the Pan-African Games 2011 (athletics) (French; PDF, 113 kB)