Amuilka Joy (Joice) Maduaka (born 30 September 1973) is a British
track and field
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athlete, who competes over the
100
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,
200
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and occasionally
400 metres. She holds the record for winning the most medals of any athlete at the
British Athletics Championships
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, standing at 22 medals to date, including being the
100 metres champion six times, and the
200 metres champion a further three times.
Athletics career
1998
She represented
England
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and won a
bronze medal in the 4 x 100 metres relay event, at the
1998 Commonwealth Games
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in
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2000
She represented Great Britain in the
2000 Summer Olympics
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2002
A second Commonwealth Games appearance in Manchester resulted in a second bronze medal in the 4 x 100 metres relay.
2004
She represented Great Britain again at the
2004 Summer Olympics.
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2006
As women's sprinting in Britain
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began to develop again, Maduaka was faced with domestic challenges from athletes such as Abi Oyepitan
Abiodun Adesola "Abi" Oyepitan (born 30 December 1979) is a British sprint athlete, who specialises in the 100 and 200 metres. She won the 100 m at the 2001 Summer Universiade and at the 2002 Commonwealth Games she took a bronze medal wi ...
. In 2006 Maduaka was not selected for the Commonwealth Games
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, but instead ran in the World Indoor Athletics Championships. In late 2006, she burst back onto the scene, setting new personal bests.
She went on to represent Great Britain at the 2006 European Championships in Athletics, finishing 4th in the final of the 100 m and finishing 2nd in the 4 x 100 m relay
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Maduaka became the British champion over 100 m and 200 m at the British Championships in 2006, beating her opposition by a considerable margin.
At the end of the year Maduaka was ranked as the fastest British athlete over 100 m and the second fastest over 200 m.
2007
At the 2007 AAA Championships she failed to defend her 100 m crown, finishing third behind Jeanette Kwakye
Jeanette Boahemaa Kwakye (pronounced ''kwah-chee''; born 20 March 1983) is a sports broadcaster and retired British sprinter.
Athletics career
Kwakye won a bronze medal in the 4x100 metres relay at the 2002 World Junior Championships, with ...
, and also had to pull out of the final of the 200 m, despite winning her heat very convincingly, due to illness. The 200 m was also won by Kwakye.
At the 2007 European Cup first division, Maduaka finished 2nd in the individual 100 m, 1st in the 200 m and anchored the British
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team home to first place in the relay, winning 23 points altogether, for her team. This is the most any British athlete has ever done for their country at these championships.
Joice Maduaka was later chosen to represent her country at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics
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. She was excluded from the 100 m list, as Montell Douglas
Montell Marcelle Douglas (born 24 January 1986) is a British sportswoman. Originally a sprinter and former British record holder for the 100 metres at 11.05 seconds. In 2016, she took up bobsleigh and became part of the Great Britain women's tw ...
was the only British athlete who had obtained the A-standard whilst, Laura Turner had been selected as an improving athlete. Maduaka and Jeanette Kwakye were to be the only British representatives in the 200 m. However, Turner went on to achieve the A standard for the 100 m, meaning that GBR were permitted another athlete in the event. The committee chose Kwakye, and then replaced her in the 200 m with Emily Freeman
Emily Kaye Freeman (born 24 November 1980) is a retired British athlete from West Yorkshire, England, personal trainer and co-founder of training and mindset company Totally Runable.
Freeman competed both nationally and internationally between 20 ...
.
Controversy
In late 2006 Maduaka and the rest of the British Women's Relay Team, represented the Europe
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team at the 2006 World Athletics Cup. However, the officials had placed the Europe team and the USA
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team in the wrong lanes, so when it came to pass the baton, they would have been passing them to the opposition. Team USA passed the batons, but team GBR (Europe) were unsure, but in the end did make a change. Both teams finished. USA was disqualified, but Europe wasn't. The race was not rerun, despite being rescheduled.
Personal bests
100 metres- 11.23 At Manchester on 15 July 2006
200 metres- 22.83 At Birmingham on 25 July 1999
Major championships
Olympic Games
Athens 2004
* Women's 200 m: Round 1: - 23.15, Round 2 - 23.30
Sydney 2000
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* Women's 100 m: Round 1 – 11.51
* Women's 200 m: Round 1 – 23.36, Round 2 – 23.57
* Women's 4 x 100 m Relay: Round 1 – 43.26, Semifinal – 43.19
World Championships
Osaka 2007
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* Women's 200 m: Round 1 – 23.22, Round 2 - 23.62
* Women's 4 x 100 m Relay: Round 1 – 42.82 (SB), Final - 42.87 (4th)
Paris 2003
* Women's 100 m: Round 1 – 11.31, Round 2 - 11.29, Semifinal - 11.40
* Women's 200 m: Round 1 – 23.11, Round 2 – 23.50
Seville 1999
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* Women's 100 m: Round 1 – 11.43, Round 2 - 11.28
* Women's 200 m: Round 1 – 23.27, Round 2 – 23.33
* Women's 4 x 100 m Relay: Round 1 – 43.31, Final – 43.52 (8th)
References
External links
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Living people
1973 births
People from Lambeth
Athletes from London
English female sprinters
British female sprinters
Olympic female sprinters
Olympic athletes of Great Britain
Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for England
Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics
Athletes (track and field) at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
Athletes (track and field) at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
Athletes (track and field) at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
World Athletics Championships athletes for Great Britain
European Athletics Championships medalists
British Athletics Championships winners
AAA Championships winners
Black British sportswomen