Victoria Ohuruogu

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Victoria Ohuruogu athletics
nation United KingdomUnited Kingdom United Kingdom
birthday 28th February 1993 (age 27)
place of birth United Kingdom
Career
discipline 400 m
Best performance 52.62 s
status active
Medal table
Indoor world championships 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
European championships 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
U23 European Championships 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
IAAF logo Indoor world championships
bronze Sopot 2014 4 × 400 m
EAA logo European championships
bronze Zurich 2014 4 × 400 m
EAA logo U23 European Championships
gold Tallinn 2015 4 × 400 m
last change: August 22, 2017

Victoria Ohuruogu (born February 28, 1993 ) is a British sprinter who specializes in the 400-meter run and was particularly successful with the British 4-by-400-meter relay .

Athletic career

Victoria Ohuruogu gained her first international experience at the 2010 Youth Olympic Games in Singapore , where she came third in the B final. In 2014 she was part of the British relay for the World Indoor Championships in Sopot, Poland . She also helped the relay move into the open-air European championships in August 2014, winning a medal each time.

In 2015, she won the gold medal at the U23 European Championships in Tallinn, Estonia with the British relay team, which set a new U23 record of 3: 30.07 minutes there. In the following years she was unable to build on her achievements and did not qualify for any other major events.

She is the sister of two-time world champion and British record holder Christine Ohuruogu .

Personal bests

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. http://www.european-athletics.org/competitions/european-athletics-u23-championships/history/year=2015/results/index.html