| Nationality: | Italian |
| Sport: | Athletics |
| Event: | Women's heptathlon |
| Club: | G.S. Fiamme Gialle |
| Birth Date: | 1971 8, mf=yes |
| Birth Place: | Brixen, Italy |
| Weight: | 63kg (139lb) |
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| Country: |  Italy |
Ifeoma Ozoeze (born 13 August 1971) is an Italian former heptathlete.
She finished fifteenth at the 1991 World Championships and eighth at the 1992 European Indoor Championships.[1] In 1995, Ozoeze won a scholarship to University of California, Berkeley: she won the Pac-10 Conference the same year.[2]
Ozoeze's father is a Nigerian gynecologist,[3] her Italian mother Silvana Collodo was the president of the Faculty of Literature and Philosophy of Padua.[4]
Ozoeze was arrested in 2008 for extortion, and was placed in the women's prison of Venice. During her time in prison, she published a book titled "Perché".
| Representing | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | World Junior Championships | Sudbury, Canada | — | Heptathlon | DNF | |
| 1990 | World Junior Championships | Plovdiv, Bulgaria | — | Heptathlon | DNF | |
| 1991 | World Championships | 8th | Heptathlon | 6056 pt | ||
| 1992 | European Indoor Championships | 8th | Pentathlon | 4137 pt | ||
Ifeoma Ozoeze has won one time the individual national championship.[5]