Florence Ekpo-Umo ( born Florence Ekpo-Umoh ; born , ), married Velte ( German Velte ) - a German athlete of Nigerian descent, a specialist in short-distance running . She played for the German athletics team throughout the 2000s, European champion, silver and bronze medalist of the world championships, participant in two summer Olympic Games.
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| Growth | 170 cm | |||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 60 kg | |||||||||||||||||||
| Club | USC Mainz | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 100 m | 11.79 (1999) | |||||||||||||||||||
| 200 m | 23.63 (1999) | |||||||||||||||||||
| 400 m | 51.13 (2001) | |||||||||||||||||||
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Biography
Florence Ekpo-Umo was born on December 27, 1977 in Lagos , Nigeria .
She first showed herself in athletics in the 1994 season, when she joined the Nigerian national team and performed at the World Junior Championships in Lisbon .
In 1995, during a training camp in Germany, she voluntarily left the location of the national team and remained in this country for permanent residence. In 1998, she joined the Mainz Sports Club and married her German coach. In 2000 she received German citizenship and since that time she represented the German team at international competitions.
Thanks to a series of successful performances, she won the right to defend the honor of the country at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney , participated here in the 4x400 meter relay program, but could not reach the final.
In 2001, she won the bronze medal at the indoor indoor championship in Lisbon and the silver medal at the open world stadium in Edmonton in the 4x400 meter relay race, and won the European Cup in Bremen . In addition, this season she set her personal best in 400 meters, showing 51.13 seconds at competitions in Stuttgart.
At the 2002 European Championships in Munich, she won the relay 4x400 meters, while at the World Cup in Madrid she became the sixth in the same discipline. She was second at the European Cup in Annecy .
In 2003, she failed a doping test made during the out-of-competition period in South Africa - traces of the anabolic steroid stanozolol were found in her sample. As a result, the athlete was suspended from participation in the competition until March 2005 [1] .
At the end of the period of ineligibility, Expo-Umo returned to the main team of the German national team and in 2008 passed the selection for the Olympic Games in Beijing - she started again in the 4 × 400 meters relay , this time she managed to reach the final with her team and finished in eighth place (subsequently, due to the disqualification of the teams of Russia and Belarus, she moved to the sixth line in the final protocol).
In 2009, she won a bronze medal at the German championship in Ulm in the 400 meter race, took third place in the European team championship in Leiria in the 4x400 meter relay.
Notes
- ↑ Grimes fails drugs test , BBC (August 13, 2003). Date of appeal September 14, 2007.
Links
- Florence Expo-Umo - profile on the IAAF website
- Florence Expo-Umo - Olympic statistics at Sports-Reference.com
- Florence Ekpo-Umo (English) - page on the website of the International Olympic Committee