Uchenna Emedolu

Uchenna Emedolu medal table
sprinter
Nigeria
Olympic Summer Games
bronze	2004 Athens	4 × 100 m
Commonwealth Games
silver	2002 Manchester	100 m
Pan-African Games
gold	2003 Abuja	200 m
silver	2003 Abuja	100 m
bronze	2007 Algiers	100 m
African Championships
gold	2006 Bambous	200 m
silver	2008 Addis Ababa	100 m
silver	2006 Bambous	100 m
silver	2002 Tunis	100 m

Uchenna Emedolu (born September 17, 1976 in Anambra ) is a Nigerian sprinter .

He first played football in his youth . After no sporting success there, he concentrated completely on athletics from 2000 , which he had previously practiced on the side. He managed to qualify for participation in the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney . In the 200-meter run , he reached the quarter-finals. With the Nigerian 4 x 100 meter relay , he was eliminated in the semi-finals.

Now more experienced, he reached the semi-finals at the 2001 World Athletics Championships in Edmonton in both the 100-meter run and the 200 -meter run . The final breakthrough came in 2002. At the Commonwealth Games in Manchester and at the African Championships in Tunis , he won the silver medal over 100 m. In the same year he became the first African 100-meter run winner at the Athletics World Cup in Madrid .

At the World Athletics Championships in 2003 in Paris , he finished sixth over 100 m and eighth over 200 m. At the Africa Games in Abuja he won gold in the 200-meter run and silver in the 100-meter run with a personal best of 9.97 s.

He celebrated the greatest success of his career at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens . Together with Olusoji Fasuba , Aaron Egbele and Deji Aliu , he was a member of the Nigerian 4 x 100 meter relay, which won the bronze medal behind the teams from Great Britain and the United States in a time of 38.23 s . In the 100-meter run, Emedolu reached the semi-finals.

In 2005 he started at the World Championships in Helsinki over 100 m and 200 m, but missed the finals in each case. At the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne in 2006 he was fourth over 100 m and sixth over 200 m. In the same year he became African champion in Bambous in the 200-meter run and won the silver medal in the 100-meter run.

In 2007 he won the bronze medal over 100 m at the Africa Games in Algiers . At the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing , he competed in the 100-meter run, but failed in the preliminary round. Even with the 4 x 100 meter relay, he could not reach the final.

In addition, he was four times Nigerian champion in the 200-meter run (2001-2003, 2006) and once in the 100-meter run (2005).

Uchenna Emedolu is 1.78 m tall and has a competition weight of 75 kg.

Top performances

• 100 m: 9.97 s, October 12, 2003, Abuja
• 200 m: 20.31 s, September 8, 2002, Rieti
• 60 m (hall): 6.66 s, February 3, 2002, Stuttgart

Web links

• Uchenna Emedolu in the database of World Athletics (English)
• IAAF: Focus on Athletes - Uchenna Emedolu ( Memento from August 14, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), August 17, 2005

Individual evidence

1. ↑ gbrathletics.com: Nigerian Championships