Florence Ekpo-Umoh
Nigerian-German sprinter
Florence Ekpo-Umoh (born 27 December 1977 in Lagos) is a Nigerian-German sprinter, who specializes in the 400 m. She was suspended from competing for two years for doping.
Career
Ekpo-Umoh last competed for her birth country Nigeria at the 1994 World Junior Championships. She defected to Germany in 1995 during a training camp there, married her German trainer in 1998 and received German citizenship in 2000. Since 1998, she represented the sports club USC Mainz.
In 2003, Ekpo-Umoh was found guilty of stanozolol doping. The sample was delivered on 24 January 2003 in an out-of-competition test in South Africa. She was suspended from the sport until March 2005.[1]
Her personal best time is 51.13 seconds, achieved in June 2001 in Stuttgart.
Achievements
| Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
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Representing  Nigeria | |||||
| 1994 | World Junior Championships | Lisbon, Portugal | 8th (sf) | 400m | 53.84 |
| 14th (h) | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:49.16 | |||
Representing  Germany | |||||
| 2001 | World Indoor Championships | Lisbon, Portugal | 3rd | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:31.00 |
| World Championships | Edmonton, Canada | 2nd | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:21.97 | |
| 2002 | European Championships | Munich, Germany | 1st | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:25.10 |
| World Cup | Madrid, Spain | 6th | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:31.09 | |
See also
References
- Florence Ekpo-Umoh at World Athletics
- 2008 Official Beijing Olympics profile : Ekpo-Umoh, Florence
- ^ "Grimes fails drugs test". BBC. 13 August 2003. Retrieved 14 September 2007.
External links
Florence Ekpo-Umoh at Wikipedia's sister projects
Quotations from Wikiquote
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European Athletics Championships champions in women's 4 × 400 metres relay
- 1969:
Great Britain (Stirling, Lowe, Simpson, Board) - 1971:
East Germany (Kühne, Lohse, Seidler, Zehrt) - 1974: East Germany (Rohde, Dietsch, Handt, Streidt)
- 1978: East Germany (Marquardt, Krug, Brehmer, Koch)
- 1982: East Germany (Siemon, Busch, Rübsam, Koch)
- 1986: East Germany (Siemon, Busch, Müller, Koch)
- 1990: East Germany (Derr, Hesselbarth, Müller, Breuer)
- 1994:
France (Landre, Elien, Dorsile, Pérec) - 1998:
Germany (Feller, Rohländer, Rieger, Breuer) - 2002: Germany (Ekpo-Umoh, Rockmeier, Marx, Breuer)
- 2006:
Russia (Pospelova, Ivanova, Zaytseva, Veshkurova) - 2010: Germany (Lindenberg, Cremer, Kohlmann, Hoffmann)
- 2012:
Ukraine (Olishevska, Zemlyak, Pyhyda, Lohvynenko) - 2014: France (Gayot, Hurtis, Raharolahy, Gueï)
- 2016: Great Britain (Diamond, Onuora, Doyle, Bundy-Davies)
- 2018:
Poland (Hołub-Kowalik, Baumgart-Witan, Wyciszkiewicz, Święty-Ersetic) - 2022:
Netherlands (Saalberg, Klaver, Bol, de Witte)
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