Christine Ohuruogu

Quick Facts

Full Name	Christine Ohuruogu
Occupation	Runner
Date Of Birth	May 17, 1984(1984-05-17)
Age	40
Birthplace	London
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Taurus

Christine Ohuruogu Biography

Christine Ohuruogu is one of the most popular and richest Runner who was born on May 17, 1984 in London, England, United Kingdom. British athlete who took home the silver medal in the Olympic Games of Olympics in

2008. Summer Olympics and silver in the 2012 Olympics in the same 400-meter race.

Olympian Olympian Harry Hillman also competed in the 400 meter event. also took part in the 400-meter event.

In 2003 Ohuruogu was a bronze medallist at 400 m at the European Junior Championships. She became the AAA champion in the 400 m in 2004, was a semi- finalist in the 400 m at the Athens Olympics of 2004, also taking part in the 4 x 400 m relay team that finished 4th. In the 2005 European Under 23 Championships she took the silver medal, losing individual gold by a hundredth of a second. She also won silver in the 4 x 400 m relay.

She was banned for a year for missing three out-of-competition drug tests; one in October 2005 and then a further two in June 2006.

Her birthplace was Igbo Nigerian parents in London.

Christine Ohuruogu Net Worth

Christine Ohuruogu is one of the richest Runner from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Christine Ohuruogu 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

She was raised within a mile of the 2012 Summer Olympics stadium in Stratford.

She won gold in the 400 meters course at the 2007 as well as 2013 World Championships.

Christine Ijeoma Ohuruogu, MBE (born 17 May 1984) is a British track and field athlete who specialises in the 400 metres, the event for which she is a former Olympic, World and Commonwealth champion. The Olympic champion in 2008, and silver medalist in 2012, she is a double World Champion, having won the 400 m at the 2007 and 2013 World Championships. She has also won six World championship medals in the women’s 4 x 400m relay as part of the Great Britain and Northern Ireland team (three awarded following disqualification for doping for other athletes) and bronze Olympic medals with the women’s 4 x 400m relay at the 2008 Beijing Games and the 2016 Rio Games, her final Olympics. Ohuruogu shares with Merlene Ottey and Usain Bolt the record for medalling in most successive global championships – 9 between the 2005 World Championships in Athletics and the 2016 Summer Olympics.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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The British Olympic Association also imposed a lifetime ban on competing at future Olympic Games for Great Britain. She appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, but the original decision was upheld, even though CAS emphasised that there was no suspicion of doping. Ohuruogu submitted a further appeal, citing the precedent of triathlete Tim Don. Ohuruogu suggested that she would probably leave Britain and compete in the Olympics for another country if it was unsuccessful, but confessed “I haven’t really given it any serious thought.”. Her Olympic ban was over-ruled on 27 November 2007.

Facts & Trivia

Christine Ranked on the list of most popular Runner. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Christine Ohuruogu celebrates birthday on May 17 of every year.

Within 24 days of the end of her year-long competition suspension she returned to win the gold medal at the 2007 World Championships in Osaka. Fellow British athlete, Nicola Sanders won silver with Novlene Williams of Jamaica third. Ohuruogu won all three of her individual races at the world championships – her heat, her semi-final and the final.

What does Christine Ohuruogu do now?

GB Boxing has appointed the former sprinter and four time Olympic medallist, Christine Ohuruogu MBE, as a non-executive board director. She will serve a four-year term as part of GB Boxing’s 12 person board and help to manage the future vision, strategy and direction of the organisation.

Why did Christine Ohuruogu miss her tests?

Ohuruogu was cleared twice by drugs testers either side of her third missed test and three independent inquiries concluded “forgetfulness” was behind her mistake. But every other athlete adhered to the strict rules by practically having their life governed by the doping whereabouts scheme.

How old is Christine Ohuruogu?

38 years (May 17, 1984)

How tall is Christine Ohuruogu?

5′ 9″

How do you pronounce Ohuruogu?

As her former linguistics lecturer confirms, her name is pronounced oh-hoo- ROO-goo (-oh as in no). The Bird’s Nest was also the scene of drama involving the Chinese 110m hurdler Liu Xiang, who four years ago had won China’s first men’s track and field gold, but had to pull out of this year’s event due to injury.