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List Of Eligibility Transfers In Athletics
This is a list of track and field athletes who have moved to compete for another country. Such moves are called transfers of allegiance by the World Athletics. To countries in Africa To countries in the Americas To countries in Asia To countries in Europe To countries in Oceania See also * List of sportspeople who competed for more than one nation * Naturalized athletes of Italy References Citations Sources Transfers of Allegiance- IAAF.org ; News storiesKenyans running for four different nations [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Track And Field
Track and field is a sport that includes athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name is derived from where the sport takes place, a running track and a grass field for the throwing and some of the jumping events. Track and field is categorized under the umbrella sport of athletics, which also includes road running, cross country running and racewalking. The foot racing events, which include sprints, middle- and long-distance events, racewalking, and hurdling, are won by the athlete who completes it in the least time. The jumping and throwing events are won by those who achieve the greatest distance or height. Regular jumping events include long jump, triple jump, high jump, and pole vault, while the most common throwing events are shot put, javelin, discus, and hammer. There are also "combined events" or "multi events", such as the pentathlon consisting of five events, heptathlon consisting of seven events, and decathlon consisting of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sultan Tucker
Sultan Tucker (born 24 October 1978) is a Liberian athlete, specializing in the 110 metres hurdles. Tucker won a bronze in the 110 metres hurdles at the 2002 African Championships. He also represented Liberia at the World Championships in 2001 and 2005, the World Indoor Championships in 2003 and 2004 and the 2004 Olympic Games The 2004 Summer Olympics ( el, Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 2004, ), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad ( el, Αγώνες της 28ης Ολυμπιάδας, ) and also known as Athens 2004 ( el, Αθήνα 2004), ..., but without reaching the final round. His personal best time is 13.54 seconds, achieved in May 2004 in Saint-Martin. External links * 1978 births Living people Liberian male hurdlers Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Liberia Clemson Tigers men's track and field athletes {{Liberia-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Todd Matthews-Jouda
Todd Matthews-Jouda (born June 20, 1979) is a hurdling athlete, who is notable for having switched nationality from United States to Sudan in September 2003. His personal best is 13.36 seconds, but being set in 2002 (i.e. before he switched to Sudan), it is not a national record. Instead, his Sudanese record is 13.45, a result which he achieved in October 2004. His first major international tournament for Sudan was the 2003 Afro-Asian Games, where he won a gold medal. Competing for his new nation, Matthews-Jouda became African champion in July 2004 and competed at the Summer Olympics a month later. He was in fact selected as flag bearer for Sudan Sudan ( or ; ar, السودان, as-Sūdān, officially the Republic of the Sudan ( ar, جمهورية السودان, link=no, Jumhūriyyat as-Sūdān), is a country in Northeast Africa. It shares borders with the Central African Republic t .... He finished last in his heat at the 2005 World Championships. Major achievements E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yamilé Aldama
Yamilé Aldama Pozo ( ar, جميلة الداما; born 14 August 1972) is a Cuban-born triple jumper. She represented Cuba until 2003, Sudan from 2004 to 2010, then Great Britain from 2011 onwards. A four-time Olympian (2000–12), she won a silver medal at the 1999 World Championships and a gold medal at the 2012 World Indoor Championships. Life and career Aldama was born in Havana, Cuba, and initially represented her country of birth. At first she competed in high jump and heptathlon events, but in 1994 she tried triple jump and two years later qualified for the Olympic team for 1996 Summer Olympics. Unable to compete there due to injury next year she reached the final at the 1997 IAAF World Indoor Championships finishing in sixth place. Two years later she won her only medal to date at the major international final taking silver medal at the 1999 World Championships in Athletics in Seville, Spain. The next year at the 2000 Summer Olympics she finished in fourth positi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sherwin Vries
Sherwin Marchel Vries (born 22 March 1980 in Walvis Bay, South Africa) is a sprinter who represents South Africa after switching from Namibia in 2003. He finished fifth at the 2001 Summer Universiade and fourth at the 2006 African Championships in Athletics, both over 200 metres. He also reached the semi-final at the 2003 World Championships in Athletics. At the 2001 Universiade he also competed for the Namibian 4 x 100 metres relay 4 (four) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 3 and preceding 5. It is the smallest semiprime and composite number, and is considered unlucky in many East Asian cultures. In mathematics Four is the smallest c ... team who set a national record of 39.48 seconds External links * 1980 births Living people Sportspeople from Walvis Bay South African male sprinters Namibian male sprinters Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Namibia Namibian emigrants to South Afr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Petranoff
Thomas Alan Petranoff (born April 8, 1958) is a retired American track and field athlete who competed in the javelin throw. He held the world record (old implement javelin) from May 1983 to July 1984; his 99.72 m (327 ft) throw was almost the length of an American football field (. During his career, he was a silver medalist at the World Championships in 1983 and represented the United States at the Summer Olympics in 1984 and 1988. He transferred to South Africa in the 1990s and was twice a winner at the African Championships. His personal best with the new implement javelin is . In the final years of his career, he returned to the United States and won a medal at the 1999 Pan American Games. Career Petranoff's world record added precisely three meters to the previous global standard of 96.72 m, set in 1980 by Hungary's Ferenc Paragi. Petranoff's effort fueled further discussion and speculation regarding the likelihood of alterations to the javelin's design and flight character ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Céline Laporte
Céline Roseline Laporte (born 7 December 1984 in Cannes, France) is a female athlete from Seychelles now based in France. She represented France until 2003. She competed at the 2006 Commonwealth Games, where she received a bronze medal in the women's long jump. She competed in the 100 metres hurdles The 100 metres hurdles, or 100-meter hurdles, is a track and field event run mainly by women (the male counterpart is the 110 metres hurdles). For the race, ten hurdles of a height of are placed along a straight course of . The first hurdle is ... at the 2004 Summer Olympics and the 2005 World Championships. In 2006, she won the silver medal in the heptathlon at the African Championships Achievements External links * * 1984 births Living people French female long jumpers French female hurdlers French heptathletes People with acquired Seychellois citizenship Seychellois female hurdlers Olympic athletes for Seychelles Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amy Sène
Amy Sène (born 6 April 1986) is a French-born Senegalese track and field athlete who competes in the hammer throw. She is the African record holder with her personal best of 69.70 metres. Sène is a three-time winner at the African Championships and was the gold medallist at the 2011 All-Africa Games and silver medallist at the 2015 All-Africa Games. She also competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics and the 2016 Summer Olympics. Born in Lorient to Senegalese parents, she opted to represent Senegal internationally from 2010 onwards. Training with the Stade Rennais Athletisme club, she was the 2005 French junior champion and competed for her country of birth at the 2007 European Athletics U23 Championships. She cleared sixty metres for the first time that year, setting a personal best of 62.00 m in June. She improved to 63.44 m in 2009 and won the French universities championship in Nice in 2010. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nichole Denby
Nichole Denby (born 10 October 1982) is an American-Nigerian track and field athlete who specializes in the 100 meters hurdles. She represented the United States at the 2007 World Championships narrowly missing the final. In 2014, she switched her allegiance to Nigeria, competing for the new nation at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, as well as 2014 African Championships where she won her first medal for Nigeria. She has had personal bests of 12.54 seconds in the 100 metres hurdles (Eugene 2008) and 7.93 in the 60 metres hurdles (Boston 2007). While running for North High School in Riverside, California, she was the 1999 and 2000 CIF California State Meet The CIF California State Meet is the annual championship track and field meet for the California Interscholastic Federation. The meet was started in 1915 for boys and 1974 for girls. Every athlete in every high school in California has a direc ... Champion in the 100 meters hurdles. Her 13.20 win in 2000 set the Nati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Jelks
Mark Elliott Jelks (born April 10, 1984) is an American track and field athlete who specializes in the 100-meter dash. He has a personal best of 9.99 seconds for the event and represented the United States at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics. In 2014, Jelks made a change in eligibility in order to represent Nigeria internationally. He represented his new country at the 2014 Commonwealth Games. He also competes in the 60-meter dash and won the national title at the 2009 USA Indoor Track and Field Championships with a personal record of 6.51 seconds. Career Born in Gary, Indiana, he competed in track and field from a young age and while studying at Gary's West Side High School he became a four-time high school All-American. In 2005 he qualified for six events at the high school state championships, reaching all the sprint and relay events as well as the long jump. After high school he studied at Texas Christian University then Kansas City Kansas Community Colle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monzavous Edwards
Monzavous "Rae" Edwards (born May 7, 1981) is an American sprint athlete who specialises in the 100 meters. Edwards began his career as a junior athlete in 2000, winning the USA Junior and Junior College (JUCO) championships in the 100 and 200 meters races. He competed at the 2000 World Junior Championships in Athletics and reached the semifinals of the 100 m and quarterfinals of the 200 m. He reached the final of the USA Outdoor Championships in Track and Field in 2003, setting a personal record of 10.09 seconds. He competed at the US Olympic trials for the 2004 Athens Olympics, but did not progress beyond the quarterfinals. He received a public warning that year from the United States Anti-Doping Agency after he tested positive for tetrahydrocannabinol, a compound found in marijuana, which is regarded as a minor infraction. At the 2005 US Outdoor Championships, he posted a personal record tying 10.09 s before finishing sixth in the 100 m final. As a res ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
