Obinna Metu

Obinna Metu
Obinna Metu at the London 2012 Summer Olympics
Full name	Joseph Obinna Metu
nation	Nigeria
birthday	July 12, 1988
place of birth	Ogidi,  Nigeria
size	189 cm
Weight	76 kg
Career
discipline	sprint
Best performance	10.11 s ( 100 m ) 20.54 s ( 200 m )
society	Delta State Sports Council Asaba
status	unknown
Medal table
Africa Games 1 × 0 × 2 × African Championships 1 × 1 × 0 ×
Africa Games gold Algiers 2007 4 × 100 m bronze Algiers 2007 200 m bronze Maputo 2011 100 m  African Championships gold Marrakech 2014 4 × 100 m silver Porto Novo 2012 4 × 100 m
last change: February 12, 2017

Joseph Obinna Metu (born July 12, 1988 in Ogidi , Anambra ) is a Nigerian sprinter .

In 2007 he won bronze in the 200 m and gold in the 4 x 100 m relay at the Africa Games in Algiers . At the World Athletics Championships in Osaka , he did not finish with the Nigerian team in the final of the 4 x 100 meter relay.

At the Olympic Games 2008 he reached the quarter-finals over 100 m and 200 m and was eliminated in the 4 x 100 meter relay competition with the Nigerian team in the preliminary run.

In 2009 he reached the quarter-finals again at the World Cup in Berlin over 100 m . At the 2010 African Athletics Championships in Nairobi, he was seventh over 100 m, fifth over 200 m and won silver with the Nigerian 4 x 100 meter relay. In 2011 he won bronze over 100 m at the Africa Games in Maputo .

In 2012 he finished fifth over 100 m at the African Championships in Porto-Novo and again took silver in the Nigerian 4 x 100 meter relay. At the Olympic Games in London , he did not get beyond 100 m over the run.

In 2014 he failed at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow over 200 m in the preliminary run and came in sixth place with the Nigerian 4 x 100 meter relay. At the African Athletics Championships in Marrakech he won with the Nigerian relay, and at the Athletics Continental Cup in Marrakech he came third with the African 4 x 100 meter relay.

At the 2015 African Games in Brazzaville, he finished fifth over 200 m.

Personal bests

• 100 m: 10.11 s, June 20, 2012, Calabar
• 200 m: 20.54 s, June 21, 2012, Calabar

Web links

• Obinna Metu in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Obinna Metu in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )