Ama Pipi
 Ama Pipi in 2017 | ||||||||||||||
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| Nationality | British | |||||||||||||
| Born | 26 November 1995 | |||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||
| Event(s) | 400 metres | |||||||||||||
| College team | Oklahoma Sooners | |||||||||||||
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Amarachi "Ama" Pipi (born 26 November 1995) is a British athlete[1] who specializes in sprinting. In 2020, Pipi became the British indoor champion in the 200-meter race. She competed in the women's 400 metres event at the 2021 European Athletics Indoor Championships.[2]
Athletics career[]
Club[]
She joined the Enfield & Haringey Athletics Club in 2007[3] at the age of 14. And she has been coached by Linford Christie since 2019.[3]
College[]
Pipi attended University of Oklahoma from 2015 – 2018[4] where she studied sociology[5] and competed as an NCAA sprinter on the Sooner Track and Field team. During this time she competed in both indoor and outdoor sprinting events. Among other accolades, she was selected as an NCAA Indoor First Team All-American in 2018, qualified for the 2018 NCAA Outdoor Championship, became the first woman in Sooner school history to win the 200-meter title in the Big 12[5] and is the Oklahoma University school record holder for indoor 400m sprint.[6]
Professional[]
Ama Pipi gained her first international experience in at the Junior World Championships in 2014 as a member of Great Britain's Women's 4 x 100 meter team. In 2017, she finished fifth in the 200-meter run at the U23 European Championships in Bydgoszcz. In 2020, Pipi became British indoor champion in the 200-meter race. In 2021 she reached the semifinals at the European Indoor Championships in Toruń in the 400-meter run and won the silver medal in the 4 x 400 meter relay.
References[]
- ^ "Ama Pipi". University of Oklahoma Athletics. Retrieved 6 March 2021.
- ^ Heats results
- ^ a b "Athlete Profile". www.thepowerof10.info. Retrieved 24 March 2021.
- ^ "Ama Pipi – 2017–18 – Track and Field". University of Oklahoma. Retrieved 24 March 2021.
- ^ a b "Ama Pipi: Turning Goals into Reality". University of Oklahoma. Retrieved 24 March 2021.
- ^ "Ama Pipi – 2017–18 – Track and Field". University of Oklahoma. Retrieved 24 March 2021.
External links[]
- Ama Pipi at World Athletics
- Ama Pipi at European Athletic Association (archived)
- Ama Pipi at ThePowerOf10.info
- Ama Pipi at TFRRS.org
- Ama Pipi at Olympedia
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- 1995 births
- Living people
- British female sprinters
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Olympic athletes of Great Britain
- Olympic female sprinters
- Oklahoma Sooners women's track and field athletes