Mercy Ntia-Obong (born 4 October 1997) is a Nigerian

athlete An athlete (also sportsman or sportswoman) is a person who competes in one or more sports that involve physical strength, speed, or endurance. Athletes may be professionals or amateurs. Most professional athletes have particularly well-devel ...

. She competed in the women's 4 × 100 metres relay event at the

2019 World Athletics Championships The 2019 IAAF World Athletics Championships () was the seventeenth edition of the biennial, global athletics competition organised by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), since renamed World Athletics. It was held betw ...

. In 2019, she won the gold medal in the women's 4 × 100 metres relay at the

2019 African Games The 12th African Games was held from 19 to 31 August 2019 in Rabat, Morocco. This was the first time that the African Games were hosted by Morocco following the country's readmission to the African Union in January 2017. Bidding process The 12th ...

held in Rabat, Morocco. She also competed in the women's 200 metres.

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* 1997 births Living people Nigerian female sprinters Place of birth missing (living people) World Athletics Championships athletes for Nigeria Athletes (track and field) at the 2019 African Games African Games gold medalists for Nigeria African Games medalists in athletics (track and field) 21st-century Nigerian women {{Nigeria-athletics-bio-stub