Patience Okon George

Patience Okon George
nation	Nigeria
birthday	25th November 1991 (age 28)
place of birth	Calabar , Nigeria
size	169 cm
Weight	63 kg
Career
discipline	400 meter run
Best performance	50.71 s
society	Cross River state
status	active
Medal table
Commonwealth Games 0 × 3 × 0 × Africa Games 1 × 1 × 0 × African Championships 2 × 1 × 2 ×
Commonwealth Games silver Glasgow 2014 4 × 100 m silver Glasgow 2014 4 × 400 m silver Gold Coast 2018 4 × 400 m  Africa Games silver Brazzaville 2015 400 m gold Rabat 2019 4 × 400 m  African Championships gold Marrakech 2014 4 × 400 m bronze Marrakech 2014 400 m silver Durban 2016 4 × 400 m bronze Durban 2016 400 m gold Asaba 2018 4 × 400 m
last change: September 2, 2019

Patience Okon George (born November 25, 1991 in Calabar ) is a Nigerian sprinter who specializes in the 400-meter run .

Athletic career

Patience Okon George gained her first international experience at the 2013 World Athletics Championships in Moscow , where she was disqualified in the Nigerian 4 x 100 meter relay in the preliminary run and in 3 in the 4 x 400 meter relay : 27.57 min came in sixth place. In 2014 she was part of the Nigerian 4 x 400 meter relay at the World Indoor Championships in Sopot , who came fifth and set an African indoor record with 3: 29.67 min. At the 2014 IAAF World Relays in the Bahamas , she took third place with the 4 x 400 meter relay in 3: 23.41 min and was finished with the 4 x 200 meter relay in 1:33, 71 min seventh. She then won silver at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow with the Nigerian 4 x 400 meter relay and contributed to winning the silver medal through the Nigerian 4 x 100 meter relay through your efforts in the run-up. Then she won at the African Championships in Marrakech in 51.68 m bronze over 400 meters behind her compatriot Folashade Abugan and Kabange Mupopo from Zambia and gold in the 4 x 400 meter relay. At the Athletics Continental Cup there she came in third place with the African 4 x 400 meter relay.

In 2015 she was unable to qualify for the final at the World Relays with the long sprint relay with 3: 32.16 min. But she qualified for the World Championships in Beijing , where she was eliminated with 50.76 s in the semifinals over 400 meters. In addition, she originally came in fifth in the relay competition in 3: 25.11 minutes in the final. However, the season was disqualified in retrospect because of a doping offense of their colleague Tosin Adeloye . Also at the subsequent African Games in Brazzaville , she won first with the relay, but was later disqualified. In the individual competition she secured the silver medal behind the Zambian Mupopo in 50.71 seconds. In 2016 she won the silver medal at the African Championships in Durban in 3: 29.94 min with the relay behind South Africa and won the bronze medal in the individual competition in 52.33 s behind Mupopo and the Kenyan Margaret Nyairera Wambui . She qualified for the first time for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , where she was eliminated in the semifinals with 52.52 s .

At the IAAF World Relays 2017 she secured fifth place with the 4 x 200 meter relay in 1: 33.08 min, while with the 4 x 400 meter relay in 3: 32.94 min took seventh place. She took part in the World Championships in London , where she was eliminated again in the semifinals with 52.60 seconds and finished fifth with the relay in 3: 26.72 minutes in the final . In 2018 she again took part in the Commonwealth Games in the Australian Gold Coast and was disqualified there in the 400-meter preliminary run, but won the silver medal with the relay behind the team from Jamaica in 3: 25.29 minutes. In August she won with the relay in 3: 31.17 min at the African Championships in Asaba, home . In addition, she finished fifth in the individual competition in 52.34 s. At the IAAF World Relays 2019 in Yokohama , she was eliminated from the preliminary round with both the 4-by-100 and 4-by-400-meter relays. In August she again took part in the Africa Games in Rabat , where she finished fifth in 52.18 s and won the Nigerian relay in 3: 30.32 min.

From 2015 to 2017 and 2019 , George was the Nigerian champion in the 400-meter run. She graduated from the University of Calabar .

Personal best

• 400 meters: 50.71 s, September 15, 2015 in Brazzaville

Web links

• Patience Okon George in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Patience Okon George in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )