Praise Idamadudu

Praise Idamadudu
nation	Nigeria
birthday	18th December 1998 (age 21)
place of birth	Ovu , Nigeria
size	170 cm
Weight	59 kg
Career
discipline	400 meter run
Best performance	51.22 s
status	active
Medal table
Commonwealth Games 0 × 1 × 0 × African Championships 1 × 1 × 1 × U20 African Championships 2 × 0 × 0 × U18 African Championships 1 × 1 × 0 ×
Commonwealth Games silver Gold Coast 2018 4 × 400 m Junior African Championships gold Addis Ababa 2015 200 m gold Addis Ababa 2015 4 × 400 m Youth African Championships gold Moka 2015 Sprint relay silver Moka 2015 200 m
last change: June 4, 2019

Praise Idamadudu (born December 18, 1998 in Ovu ) is a Nigerian sprinter who specializes in the 200- and 400-meter run .

Athletic career

Praise Idamadudu gained her first international experience at the 2014 African Youth Games in Gaborone , where she won the gold medal in the 200-meter run in 24.16 seconds. She then took part in the Junior World Championships in Eugene , reached the semi-finals over 200 meters and was disqualified over 400 meters in the preliminary run. In addition, she finished fifth with the Nigerian 4 x 400 meter relay in 3: 35.14 minutes. The following year she also won the relay in 3: 38.94 min at the Junior African Championships in Addis Ababa and also secured gold over 200 meters in 23.76 s. At the subsequent African Youth Championships in Moka , she won the gold medal in the sprint relay (1000 meters) in 2: 08.71 minutes and secured the silver medal over 200 meters in 23.79 seconds. At the Commonwealth Youth Games, in addition to the 200 meters, she also won the gold medal with the 4-by-100-meter and 4-by-400-meter relay. In 2018 she took part in the Commonwealth Games in the Australian Gold Coast for the first time and won the silver medal behind the Jamaicans in 3: 25.29 min. In addition, she reached the semi-finals in the 200-meter run, in which she was eliminated with 23.69 s. In August she was eighth in 23.79 s at the African Championships in Asaba, home .

At the IAAF World Relays 2019 in Yokohama , she retired in the 4 x 400 meter relay with 3: 32.10 minutes in the first round.

In 2015 Idamadudu became the Nigerian champion in the 200-meter run.

Personal best

• 200 meters: 23.48 s (+0.7 m / s), July 31, 2015 in Warri
• 400 meters: 52.49 s, March 17, 2018 in Abuja

Web links

• Praise Idamadudu in the database of World Athletics (English)