Gina Akpe-Moses

Gina Akpe-Moses
	Gina Akpe-Moses at the 2018 European Athletics Championships
Personal information
Nationality	Irish
Born	25 February 1999 (age 22); Lagos, Nigeria
Sport
Sport	Athletics
Event(s)	100 metres 200 metres
Club	St. Gerald's AC

Gina Akpe-Moses (born 25 February 1999 in Lagos, Nigeria) is an Irish athlete specialising as a sprinter. In 2017 she became the European junior champion over 100 metres, the first Irish woman to win an sprint gold medal at that level.^[1]

Career[]

Arriving at the age of three in Dundalk, she started athletics at age 11 in St Gerald's AC, then specialised in sprinting. In 2014, she moved to Birmingham to join an elite British club. In 2015 she competed at the European Athletics Junior Championships in Eskilstuna, coming in fourth place as part of the 4 x 100 metres relay team. She won joint-silver at the Athletics at the 2015 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival in the 200 metres in Tbilisi. She won the silver medal in the 100 metres run at the European Youths in 2016. In 2017 she won gold at the European U20s in Grosseto, and again came fourth in the 4 x 100 metres.^[2]^[3] In 2018, she won silver as part of the 4 x 100m Irish team at the Youth World U-20 Championships in Tampere, Finland, having also qualified for the final of the individual race.^[4]