Amelia Okoli-Okpalaoka (14 May 1941 – 1 November 2017) was a female track and field athlete from Nigeria. She specialised in the

high jump The high jump is a track and field event in which competitors must jump unaided over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without dislodging it. In its modern, most-practiced format, a bar is placed between two standards with a crash mat f ...

event during her career. Okoli represented Nigeria at the 1964 Olympic Games. She claimed a gold medal for her native West African country at the

1965 All-Africa Games The 1st All-Africa Games – Brazzaville 1965 was a multi-sport event played from July 18, 1965, to July 25, 1965, in Brazzaville, Congo. History The first games to open to the entire African continent occurred a full forty years after they wer ...

. Okoli finished tenth in the

1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games The 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games (Welsh: Gemau Ymerodraeth Prydain a'r Gymanwlad 1958) were held in Cardiff, Wales, from 18–26 July 1958. Thirty-five nations sent a total of 1,130 athletes and 228 officials to the Cardiff Games ...

high jump.

External links

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Amelia Okoli's obituary
1941 births 2017 deaths Nigerian female high jumpers Olympic athletes for Nigeria Athletes (track and field) at the 1964 Summer Olympics Commonwealth Games competitors for Nigeria Athletes (track and field) at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games African Games gold medalists for Nigeria African Games medalists in athletics (track and field) Athletes (track and field) at the 1965 All-Africa Games 20th-century Nigerian women {{Nigeria-athletics-bio-stub