Christine Ohuruogu
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Christine Ijeoma Ohuruogu is a British former track and field athlete who specialised in the 400 metres, the event for which she is an Olympic, World and Commonwealth champion.
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The only thing I have in my armoury is that I know I'll fight. Whatever it takes, I'll fight. Even if I'm tired, I'll fight.
Christine Ohuruogu: 'I find myself apologising to people who are like, you gave me a heart attack' by Tim Lewis. December 8, 2013.
You can't change a child's life, but those are the small things that can motivate them, give them a little push to keep them going.
Christine Ohuruogu: 'I find myself apologising to people who are like, you gave me a heart attack' by Tim Lewis. December 8, 2013.
I just want these kids to have a mental frame of mind that is open to work as opposed to being people who just sit around and wait for things to be done. So that's why I do it.
Christine Ohuruogu: 'I find myself apologising to people who are like, you gave me a heart attack' by Tim Lewis. December 8, 2013.
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Christine Ijeoma Ohuruogu is a British former track and field athlete who specialised in the 400 metres, the event for which she is an Olympic, World and Commonwealth champion. The Olympic champion in 2008, and silver medalist in 2012, she is a double World Champion, having won the 400 m at the 2007 and 2013 World Championships. She has also won six World championship medals in the women's 4 × 400 m relay as part of the Great Britain and Northern Ireland team and bronze Olympic medals in the women's 4 × 400 m relay at the 2008 Beijing Games and the 2016 Rio Games, her final Olympics. Ohuruogu shares with Merlene Ottey and Usain Bolt the record for medalling in most successive global championships - 9 - between the 2005 World Championships in Athletics and the 2016 Summer Olympics.
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