Christine Ohuruogo – 200m &
400m
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As a former U17 and U19 England netball player, Christine
participated in athletics from the age of 16 because of her love for running.
She began to specialise in the 400m after agreeing to run her first race as no
other athlete from Newham & Essex Beagles wanted to compete over such a
distance. From then on Christine was regularly selected to run the 400m due to
the impressive times she ran for her age group.
In 2001, Christine made her debut in athletics where she ran
25.0 for the 200m and 55.29 for the 400m, placing her 3rd in the
junior international rankings. In 2002, a hamstring injury forced Christine to
miss the season however she made a superb return in 2003 by performing a
personal best (54.21) taking bronze place at the European 400m.
Christine was selected to compete for the GB team at the
Athens Olympics in 2004, achieving a new personal best of 50.50 in the heats
and narrowly missing out on a place in the final, finishing 4th in her
semi final.
With Christine holding a strong belief that everyone should
always make the most of their talent, she uses the fact that there is so much
more out there to be achieved as her motivation to help continuously improve
her level of conditioning and endurance speed to become the best in her event.
This was evident in 2005, when she opened her season by
running the first leg of the winning 4x400 quartet at the European Cup and
running 53.01 in her individual event. Improvements were seen throughout the
year as she added the U23 AAA title to her list of achievements and took 2nd
place at the senior AAA championships. Christine got her time over 400m down to
50.73 giving her silver at the U23 European Championships. On the Grand Prix
circuit Christine continued to demonstrate her formidable talent finishing 4th
in London and Sheffield and playing a vital role in securing bronze for the
British relay team at the World Championships in Helsinki.
Christine’s improvement continued with an impressive victory
at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in
After this impressive start to her season, Christine
unfortunately fell foul of a doping violation, whereby she omitted to inform UK
Athletics of a change in her training location. Christine was banned from
competing in the sport she loves for twelve months, but continued to train and
came back fitter and stronger to win the World Championship in
Following her successes Christine was selected as the
British Athletics Writers' female athlete of the year and was included in the
nominations for Sports Personality of the Year.
Christine has only competed once so far in 2008 as she
continues to work hard in training towards the Olympic Games in
Christine is sponsored by Adidas. Off the track Christine gained
a 2:1 in linguistics at University College of London and generally enjoys
reading and listening to music to help her relax.