Nzubechi Grace Nwokocha

Nzubechi Grace Nwokocha
Personal information
NationalityNigerian
Born (2001-04-07) 7 April 2001 (age 24)
Sport
SportTrack and Field
Event(s)
100m, 200m

Nzubechi Grace Nwokocha (pronunciationⓘ; born 7 April 2001) is a Nigerian sprinter, a multiple time national champion over 100 metres. She is currently banned following a doping violation at the 2022 Commonwealth Games which caused her country to be stripped of the gold medal in the 4 × 100 m relay.[1][2]

Career

In 2021, she posted a new personal best time in the 100m of 11.09 and, in the process, became the first Nigerian athlete to qualify for the delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics.[3] She also won the 100m at the National Sports Festival in Benin.[4]

At the Athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metres, she ran a new personal best time of 11.00 seconds in her heat to qualify for the semi-finals.[5]

In 2022 she came sixth in the final of the NCAA championship in both the 100 metres and the 200 metres. She entered both the 100m and the 200m at the 2022 World Athletics Championships and reached the semi-finals at both events. She also won the Nigerian National Championships over 100 metres.[6]

On 3 September 2022, she was provisionally suspended for the use of banned substances Ostarine and Ligandrol by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU).[7][8] A three-year ban was confirmed the following year, with the start of the ban backdated to the date the positive sample was collected, 3 August 2022.[9]

References

  1. ^ "Nzubechi Grace NWOKOCHA | Profile". worldathletics.org.
  2. ^ "Commonwealth Games: Team England equal gold medal best after silver upgraded". BBC Sport. 14 July 2023. Retrieved 14 July 2023.
  3. ^ Chinedu, Ugo (April 7, 2021). "Women In Sports: Nzubechi Grace Nwokocha • Connect Nigeria".
  4. ^ "Breaking – Edo 2020: Grace Nwokocha is Nigeria's fastest girl". April 10, 2021.
  5. ^ "Athletics - Round 1 - Heat 5 Results". Archived from the original on 2021-07-30. Retrieved 2021-07-30.
  6. ^ "Nzubechi Grace NWOKOCHA | Profile | World Athletics".
  7. ^ "Grace Nwokocha Found Guilty Of Doping At Commonwealth Games". 2023-10-30. Retrieved 2023-10-30.
  8. ^ "Commonwealth gold medallist Nwokocha provisionally suspended for doping". Reuters. 3 September 2022. Retrieved 5 September 2022.
  9. ^ Shefferd, Neil (27 October 2023). "Nigerian sprinter Nwokocha receives three-year ban for positive drugs test at Birmingham 2022". Inside the Games. Retrieved 23 October 2025.
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