Chinaza Amadi
Chinazom Doris Amadi (born 12 September 1987) is a Nigerian long jumper.
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Nationality | Nigeria | |||||||||||||||||||
Born | 12 September 1987 | |||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | Long jump | |||||||||||||||||||
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Updated on 27 August 2016. |
She won the bronze medal at the 2006 African Championships. At the 2007 All-Africa Games she finished fourth, missing the bronze medal by a two centimetre margin.[1] At the 2008 African Championships she won the silver medal.
Her personal best jump is 6.43 metres, achieved in May 2007 in Lagos.
She was the gold medallist in the long jump at the 2015 African Games, but was stripped of this title after failing a drug test for methenolone.[2] She was banned for four years, until 15 September 2019.[3]
References
- 2007 All-Africa Games, women's long jump final Archived 2007-10-10 at the Wayback Machine
- Doping ban shock for Nigeria. IOL (2016-01-24). Retrieved on 2016-01-24.
- IAAF list of sanctioned athletes
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