Headercolor: | lightblue |
Sorina Nwachukwu | |
Birth Date: | 21 August 1987 |
Birth Place: | Witten, North Rhine- Westphalia, West Germany |
Weight: | 640NaN0 |
Sport: | Athletics |
Event: | 4 × 400 metres relay |
Club: | TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen |
Coach: | Joachim Schwarzmüller |
Pb: | 400 m: 51.53 s (2008) |
Show-Medals: | yes |
Sorina Nwachukwu (born August 21, 1987 in Witten, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German sprinter of Nigerian descent, who specialized in the 400 metres.[1] She set her personal best time of 51.53 seconds, by winning the same distance at the 2009 German National Athletics Championships in Ulm.[2] Nwachukwu is also a member of the track and field team for TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen, and is coached and trained by Joachim Schwarzmüller.[3]
Nwachukwu competed for the women's 4 × 400 m relay at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, along with her teammates Claudia Hoffmann, Florence Ekpo-Umoh, and Jonna Tilgner. Running the second leg, Nwachukwu recorded her individual-split time of 52.60 seconds, and the German team went on to an eighth-place finish in the final, for a total time of 3:28.45.[4]