List of eligibility transfers in athletics
This is a list of track and field athletes who have moved to compete for another country. Such moves are called transfers of allegiance by the World Athletics.[1]
To countries in Africa[]
Name of athlete | From nation | To nation | Year |
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Yasmina Omrani | France | Algeria | |
Fabienne Feraez | France | Benin | 2003 |
Lætitia Bambara | France | Burkina Faso | |
Fred Salle | Great Britain | Cameroon | 1986 |
Sylvie Mballa Éloundou | France | Cameroon | 2005 |
Georgina Toth | Hungary | Cameroon | |
Great Britain | Gambia | 2011 | |
Great Britain | Gambia | 2011 | |
Tim Abeyie | Great Britain | Ghana | 2011 |
Sean Safo-Antwi | Great Britain | Ghana | 2016 |
Fatmata Fofanah | United States | Guinea | 2006 |
Gabriela Kouassi | France | Ivory Coast | |
Rosvitha Okou | France | Ivory Coast | 2012 |
Leonard Mucheru Maina | Bahrain | Kenya | 2007 |
Sultan Tucker | United States | Liberia | |
Kia Davis | United States | Liberia | 2008 |
Brahim Lahlafi | France | Morocco | 2007 |
Tosin Oke | Great Britain | Nigeria | 2009 |
Monzavous Edwards | United States | Nigeria | 2014 |
Mark Jelks | United States | Nigeria | 2014 |
Nichole Denby | United States | Nigeria | 2014 |
Burkina Faso | Rwanda | 2003 | |
Amy Sène | France | Senegal | |
Céline Laporte | France | Seychelles | 2003 |
Tom Petranoff | United States | South Africa | 1991 |
Sherwin Vries | Namibia | South Africa | 2003 |
Yamilé Aldama | Cuba | Sudan ( United Kingdom |
2004 2011) |
Todd Matthews-Jouda | United States | Sudan | 2003 |
Sarah Bensaad | France | Tunisia | |
Florence Ezeh | France | Togo | 2005 |
Sandrine Thiébaud-Kangni | France | Togo | |
Gerald Phiri | Great Britain | Zambia | 2009 |
To countries in the Americas[]
Name of athlete | From nation | To nation | Year |
---|---|---|---|
Amy Harris | Great Britain | Antigua and Barbuda | 2014 |
Uruguay | Brazil | 2006 | |
Yvonne Saunders | Jamaica | Canada | 1973 |
Anton Skerritt | Trinidad and Tobago | Canada | |
Steve Agar | Dominica | Canada | 1998 |
Graeme Fell | Great Britain | Canada | 1983 |
Karlene Haughton | Jamaica | Canada | 1998 |
Philomena Mensah | Ghana | Canada | 1999 |
Martha Adusei | Ghana | Canada | 1999 |
Melissa Feinstein | United States | Canada | 2000 |
Nicole Haynes | United States | Canada | 2000 |
Charles Allen | Guyana | Canada | 2002 |
Jamaica | Canada | 2002 | |
Philipp Rist | Switzerland | Canada | 2002 |
Dariusz Slowik | Poland Denmark | Canada | 2004 |
Lieja Tunks | Netherlands | Canada | 2006 |
Jonathan Brown | Great Britain | Canada | 2008 |
Lemlem Ogbasilassie | Eritrea | Canada | 2008 |
Danny Kassap | Democratic Republic of the Congo | Canada | 2008 |
Justin Rodhe | United States | Canada | 2012 |
Kareem Streete-Thompson | United States | Cayman Islands | 1999 |
Jérôme Romain | France | Dominica | 2008 |
Alvin Harrison | United States | Dominican Republic | 2009[2] |
Erison Hurtault | United States | Dominica | 2008 |
Charles Allen | Canada | Guyana | 2000 |
Jenea McCammon | United States | Guyana | 2014 |
Dudley Dorival | United States | Haiti | 1999 |
Nadine Faustin-Parker | United States | Haiti | |
Vanessa Clerveaux | United States | Haiti | |
Yvonne Mai-Graham | Germany | Jamaica | 1993 |
Liliana Allen | Cuba | Mexico | 1998 |
Bayano Kamani | United States | Panama | |
Jose Antonio Parrilla | United States | Puerto Rico | 2000 |
Allen Simms | United States | Puerto Rico | 2005 |
Kimberly Barrett | Jamaica | Puerto Rico | 2006 |
Steve Brown | United States | Trinidad and Tobago | 1997 |
Aaron Armstrong | United States | Trinidad and Tobago | 2005 |
Wayne Davis | United States | Trinidad and Tobago | 2011[3] |
Kevon Pierre | Saint Kitts and Nevis | Trinidad and Tobago | 2005 |
Christopher Hercules | United States | Trinidad and Tobago | 2006 |
Olga Appell | Mexico | United States | 1994 |
Abdihakem Abdirahman | Somalia | United States | 2000 |
Ibrahim Mohamed Aden | Somalia | United States | 2001 |
Michael Aish | New Zealand | United States | 2010 |
Natasha Alleyne-Gibson | Trinidad and Tobago | United States | 2000 |
Bolota Asmerom | Eritrea | United States | 2002 |
Dominique DeGramont | Haiti | United States | 2007 |
Maggie Chan-Roper | Hong Kong | United States | 2006 |
Colleen De Reuck | South Africa | United States | 2002 |
Sandra Farmer-Patrick | Jamaica | United States | 1989 |
Philemon Hanneck | Zimbabwe | United States | 1999 |
Eddy Hellebuyck | Belgium | United States | 2000 |
Mbarak Hussein | Kenya | United States | 2004 |
Alex Jodidio | Netherlands | United States | 2008 |
Khalid Khannouchi | Morocco | United States | 2000 |
Kenya | United States | 2002 | |
Bernard Lagat | Kenya | United States | 2005 |
Sydney Maree | South Africa | United States | 1984 |
Adam Montague | Australia | United States | 2006 |
Miguel Nuci | Mexico | United States | 2007 |
Christy Opara-Thompson | Nigeria | United States | 1998 |
Nadia Prasad | France | United States | 2000 |
Yuliana Pérez | Cuba | United States | 2000 |
Kenya | United States | 2006 | |
Colleen Scott | Jamaica | United States | 2007 |
Allen Simms | Puerto Rico | United States | 2008 |
Stanisława Walasiewicz | Poland | United States | 1947 |
Chen Yueling | China | United States | 2000 |
David Macharia Yuot | Sudan | United States | 2007 |
Ethiopia | United States | 2012 | |
Benson Osoro | Kenya | United States | 2012 |
Erich Cordero | Cuba | United States | 2012 |
Yandy Nelson Alvarez | Cuba | United States | 2012 |
Betzaira Martinez | Mexico | United States | 2012 |
Bahrain | United States | 2016 | |
Jeff Jackson | United States | United States Virgin Islands | 1999 |
Valma Bass | Saint Kitts and Nevis | United States Virgin Islands | 2002 |
To countries in Asia[]
Name of athlete | From nation | To nation | Year |
---|---|---|---|
Aadam Ismaeel Khamis | Kenya | Bahrain | |
Ishaq Isa Abedeen | Kenya | Bahrain | |
Ethiopia | Bahrain | ||
Ethiopia | Bahrain | ||
Sameer Kamal Ali | Kenya | Bahrain | |
Yusuf Saad Kamel | Kenya | Bahrain | 2003 |
Maryam Yusuf Jamal | Ethiopia | Bahrain | 2004 |
Mushir Salem Jawher | Kenya | Bahrain | 2003 |
Kenya | Bahrain | 2003 | |
Belal Mansoor Ali | Kenya | Bahrain | |
Tareq Mubarak Taher | Kenya | Bahrain | 2005 |
Hasan Mahboob | Kenya | Bahrain | 2006 |
Rashid Mohamed | Morocco | Bahrain | 2002 |
Musa Amer Obaid | Kenya | Bahrain | |
Rashid Ramzi | Morocco | Bahrain | |
Nadia Ejjafini | Morocco | Bahrain | |
Kenya | Bahrain | ||
Abdeen Shaka | Kenya | Bahrain | |
Mona Salem Jaber | Kenya | Bahrain | |
Khamis Sultan Dawood | Kenya | Bahrain | |
Morocco | Bahrain | ||
Abdelhak Zakaria | Morocco | Bahrain | |
Brandon Simpson | Jamaica | Bahrain | 2006 |
Khalid Kamal Yaseen | Kenya | Bahrain | |
Bilisuma Shugi | Ethiopia | Bahrain | |
Dejenee Regassa | Ethiopia | Bahrain | |
Tejitu Daba | Ethiopia | Bahrain | |
Shitaye Eshete | Ethiopia | Bahrain | |
Kemi Adekoya | Nigeria | Bahrain | 2014 |
Sadik Mikhou | Morocco | Bahrain | |
Zheng Ninali | Canada | China | 2021 |
Leila Rajabi | Belarus | Iran | 2007 |
Takeshi Fujiwara | El Salvador | Japan | 2013 |
Takhir Mamashayev | Belarus | Kazakhstan | 2001 |
Mohamed Suleiman | Somalia | Qatar | |
Onèsphore Nkunzimana | Burundi | Qatar | |
Ahmad Hassan Abdullah | Kenya | Qatar | |
Saif Saaeed Shaheen | Kenya | Qatar | 2003 |
James Kwalia | Kenya | Qatar | 2004 |
Nicholas Kemboi | Kenya | Qatar | 2005 |
Daham Najim Bashir | Kenya | Qatar | |
Gamal Belal Salem | Kenya | Qatar | |
Essa Ismail Rashed | Kenya | Qatar | |
Majed Saeed Sultan | Kenya | Qatar | |
Salem Amer Al-Badri | Kenya | Qatar | |
Thamer Kamal Ali | Kenya | Qatar | |
Felix Kibore | Kenya | Qatar | 2007 |
Rashid K. Jamal | Ethiopia | Qatar | |
Mubarak Hassan Shami | Kenya | Qatar | |
Edrees Kamal Eisa | Ethiopia | Qatar | |
Faisal Bader Shebto | Kenya | Qatar | |
Moustafa Ahmed Shebto | Uganda | Qatar | 2004 |
Samuel Francis | Nigeria | Qatar | 2007 |
Kenya | Qatar | 2007 | |
Femi Ogunode | Nigeria | Qatar | 2010 |
Ashraf Amgad El-Seify | Egypt | Qatar | |
Du Xianhui | China | Singapore | 2003 |
Zhang Guirong | China | Singapore | 2003 |
Juttaporn Krasaeyan | China | Thailand | |
Saeed Besweidan | Yemen | United Arab Emirates | 2000 |
Alia Saeed Mohammed | Ethiopia | United Arab Emirates | 2010 |
Ethiopia | United Arab Emirates | 2010 | |
Andrey Abduvaliyev | Tajikistan | Uzbekistan | 1997 |
Erkinjon Isakov | Russia | Uzbekistan | 1999 |
Mariya Sokova | Russia | Uzbekistan |
To countries in Europe[]
Name of athlete | From nation | To nation | Year |
---|---|---|---|
Ljudmila Ninova-Rudoll | Bulgaria | Austria | |
Mark McKoy | Canada | Austria | 1994 |
Valentina Fedjuschina | Ukraine | Austria | 1999 |
Serhiy Osovych | Ukraine | Austria | 2003 |
Nora Ivanova | Turkey | Austria | 2008 |
Hanna Skydan | Ukraine | Azerbaijan | 2015[4] |
Evans Chebet | Kenya | Azerbaijan | 2016[5] |
Andrey Makarov | Russia | Belarus | 1998 |
Aleksandr Furso | Russia | Belarus | 1999 |
Takhir Mamashayev | Uzbekistan | Belarus | 2001 |
Sergey Litvinov | Russia | Belarus | 2004 |
Mohammed Mourhit | Morocco | Belgium | 1997 |
Yelena Golesheva-Scheers | Russia | Belgium | 1998 |
Stefanija Statkuviené | Lithuania | Belgium | 1998 |
Olivier Sekanyambo | DR Congo | Belgium | 1999 |
Élodie Ouédraogo | Burkina Faso | Belgium | 2000 |
Hassan Mourhit | Morocco | Belgium | 2003 |
Irina Sustelo | Portugal | Belgium | 2005 |
Atelaw Yeshetela | Ethiopia | Belgium | 2008 |
Svetlana Bolshakova | Russia | Belgium | 2008 |
FR Yugoslavia | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 2002 | |
Serbia and Montenegro | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 2003 | |
Serbia and Montenegro | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 2003 | |
Predrag Momirović | Serbia and Montenegro | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 2004 |
Tanja Glicic | Serbia and Montenegro | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 2006 |
Maja Jancic | Serbia and Montenegro | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 2006 |
Milan Radulović | Serbia and Montenegro | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 2006 |
Lucia Kimani | Kenya | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 2007 |
András Haklits | Hungary | Croatia | 1998 |
Roland Varga | Hungary | Croatia | 2008 |
Lisa Nemec | United States | Croatia | |
Marianna Zachariadi | Greece | Cyprus | 2008 |
Dimitrios Chondrokoukis | Greece | Cyprus | 2013[6] |
Róbert Štefko | Slovakia | Czech Republic | 2004 |
Josef Karas | Canada | Czech Republic | 2005 |
Robert Kiplagat Andersen | Kenya | Denmark | |
Wilson Kipketer | Kenya | Denmark | |
Larissa Netšeporuk | Ukraine | Estonia | |
Eduard Hämäläinen | Belarus | Finland | 1997 |
Russia | Finland | 2005 | |
Wilson Kirwa | Kenya | Finland | 1998 |
Francis Kirwa | Kenya | Finland | 2005 |
Frantz Kruger | South Africa | Finland | 2007 |
Abdelkader Bakhtache | Algeria | France | 2006 |
Eunice Barber | Sierra Leone | France | 1999 |
Abdellah Béhar | Morocco | France | |
Saïd Berioui | Morocco | France | 2009 |
Abdessemad Bouhattach | Morocco | France | 2003 |
Mickaël Conjungo | Central African Republic | France | |
Ahmed Douhou | Ivory Coast | France | 2002 |
Lueyi Dovy | Gabon | France | 2002 |
Sylvie Mballa Éloundou | Cameroon | France | 2002 |
Hanan Farhoun | Morocco | France | 2006 |
Fanjantenaina Félix | Madagascar | France | 2009 |
Bouchra Ghezielle | Morocco | France | 2005 |
Hind Dehiba | Morocco | France | 2004 |
Latifa Essarokh | Morocco | France | 1996 |
Rachid Ghanmouni | Morocco | France | 2010 |
Morocco | France | ||
Abderrahim El Haouzy | Morocco | France | |
Numidia Kafri | Algeria | France | |
Héni Kechi | Tunisia | France | 2004 |
Morocco | France | 2003 | |
Sylwia Korzeniowska | Poland | France | 2010 |
El Hassan Lahssini | Morocco | France | 2001 |
Morocco | France | 2002 | |
Driss Maazouzi | Morocco | France | 2000 |
Rakiya Maraoui-Quétier | Morocco | France | 1998 |
Margaret Maury | Kenya | France | 2002 |
Françoise Mbango Etone | Cameroon | France | 2010 |
Rodica Nagel | Romania | France | |
Simon Munyutu | Kenya | France | 2006 |
Antoinette Nana Djimou Ida | Cameroon | France | |
Emmanuel Ngom Priso | Cameroon | France | 2009 |
Issa-Aimé Nthépé | Cameroon | France | 1999 |
Teresa Nzola Meso Ba | Angola | France | 2003 |
Nicole Ramalalanirina | Madagascar | France | 1998 |
Ferenc Salbert | Hungary | France | |
Morocco | France | ||
Ismaïl Sghyr | Morocco | France | 2002 |
Yvon Sialo-Ngboda | Central African Republic | France | 2007 |
Melanie Skotnik | Germany | France | 2005 |
Brahim Lahlafi | Morocco | France | 2006 |
Jérôme Romain | Dominica | France | 1999 |
Nouredine Smain | Algeria | France | 2005 |
James Theuri | Kenya | France | 2006 |
Cheikh Touré | Senegal | France | 2000 |
Dauphin Tumatai | French Polynesia | France | 2007 |
Ibrahima Wade | Senegal | France | 2000 |
Larbi Zéroual | Morocco | France | 1999 |
Spain | France | 2015 | |
Ousmane Diarra | Senegal | France | |
Halina Górecka | Poland | West Germany | 1965 |
Jürgen May | East Germany | West Germany | 1967 |
Andrzej Badeński | Poland | West Germany | 1974 |
Józef Szmidt | Poland | West Germany | 1975 |
Władysław Kozakiewicz | Poland | West Germany | 1984 |
Wolfgang Schmidt | East Germany | West Germany | 1987 |
Nischan Daimer | Armenia | Germany | |
Andrei Tivontchik | Belarus | Germany | 1994 |
Alina Astafei | Romania | Germany | 1995 |
Nastja Ryjikh | Russia | Germany | 1995 |
Luminita Zaituc | Romania | Germany | 1996 |
Irina Mikitenko | Kazakhstan | Germany | 1998 |
Nigeria | Germany | ||
Florence Ekpo-Umoh | Nigeria | Germany | 2000 |
Alexsey Bogdasin | Kazakhstan | Germany | 2006 |
Sergey Lytvynov Jr. | Belarus | Germany | 2007 |
Ethiopia | Germany | 2014 | |
Julia Bleasdale | Great Britain | Germany | 2016 |
Zola Budd | South Africa | Great Britain | 1984 |
Great Britain | South Africa | 1992 | |
Fred Salle | Cameroon | Great Britain | 1992 |
Birhan Dagne | Ethiopia | Great Britain | 1998 |
Bobby Farren | Ireland | Great Britain | 1998 |
Kathy Butler | Canada | Great Britain | 2000 |
James McIlroy | Ireland | Great Britain | 2000 |
Irie Hill | Germany | Great Britain | 2000 |
Kassa Tadesse | Ethiopia | Great Britain | 2001 |
Samson Oni | Nigeria | Great Britain | 2003 |
Malachi Davis | United States | Great Britain | 2004 |
Nathalie Harvey | Australia | Great Britain | 2004 |
Simon Shirley | Australia | Great Britain | |
Nicholas Stuart | Canada | Great Britain | 2005 |
Gerenshi Tamirat | Ethiopia | Great Britain | 2005 |
Germaine Mason | Jamaica | Great Britain | 2006 |
Tomas Abyu | Ethiopia | Great Britain | 2006 |
Taneisha Robinson-Scanlon | Ireland | Great Britain | 2006 |
Michael Bingham | United States | Great Britain | 2008 |
Roald Bradstock | United States | Great Britain | 2009 |
Tiffany Porter | United States | Great Britain | 2010 |
Shara Proctor | Anguilla | Great Britain | 2010 |
Shana Cox | United States | Great Britain | 2011 |
Julian Reid | Jamaica | Great Britain | 2011 |
Stefanie Reid | Canada | Great Britain | 2010 |
Yamilé Aldama | Cuba | Sudan | 2004 |
Sudan | United Kingdom | 2011 | |
Zharnel Hughes | Anguilla | Great Britain | 2015 |
Sweden | Great Britain | 2015 | |
Alexandros Terzian | Argentina | Greece | |
Mirela Maniani | Albania | Greece | 1997 |
Simona Staicu | Romania | Hungary | 2000 |
Éva Miklós | Romania | Hungary | 2003 |
Attila Farkas | Israel | Hungary | 2004 |
Tommy Kafri | Israel | Hungary | 2007 |
Canada | Ireland | 1998 | |
Great Britain | Ireland | 1998 | |
Sean Wade | New Zealand | Ireland | 1999 |
Adrienne McIvor | Australia | Ireland | 2000 |
Stephan Hayward | Great Britain | Ireland | 2001 |
Alistair Cragg | South Africa | Ireland | 2002 |
Alkin Westley | Canada | Ireland | 2003 |
United States | Ireland | 2004 | |
Jerome Krahenbuhl | Switzerland | Ireland | 2004 |
Samuel Okantey | Ghana | Ireland | 2002 |
Brendan Reilly | Great Britain | Ireland | 1999 |
Sarah Reilly | Great Britain | Ireland | 2000 |
Great Britain | Ireland | 2006 | |
Mark Crowley | Great Britain | Ireland | 2008 |
Kevin Brown | Great Britain | Ireland | 2008 |
Great Britain | Ireland | 2008 | |
Great Britain | Ireland | 2010 | |
Ben Reynolds | Great Britain | Ireland | 2012 |
Liam Zamel-Paez | Australia | Ireland | 2014 |
France | Ireland | 2014 | |
Australia | Ireland | 2014 | |
Alex Wright | Great Britain | Ireland | 2015 |
Katie Kirk | Great Britain | Ireland | 2015 |
Asaf Bimro | Ethiopia | Israel | 1984 |
Mark Handelsman | South Africa | Israel | |
Aleksey Bazarov | Soviet Union | Israel | |
Aleksandr Fingert | Soviet Union | Israel | |
Vadim Bavikin | Soviet Union | Israel | 1990 |
Ayele Seteng | Ethiopia | Israel | 1991 |
Brian Mondschein | United States | Israel | 2010 |
Wodage Zvadya | Ethiopia | Israel | 1991 |
Danny Krasnov | Russia | Israel | 1991 |
Svetlana Gnezdilov | Ukraine | Israel | 1996 |
Sergey Lukashok | Ukraine | Israel | |
Mukat Derba | Ethiopia | Israel | |
Konstantin Semyonov | Belarus | Israel | |
Niels Kruller | Netherlands | Israel | 1998 |
Alex Rosen | United States | Israel | 1998 |
Aleksandr Averbukh | Russia | Israel | 1999 |
Irina Lenskiy | Russia | Israel | 1999 |
Aleksandr Porkhomovskiy | Russia | Israel | 1999 |
Dan Middleman | United States | Israel | 2000 |
Anna Tkach | Russia | Israel | 2003 |
Niki Palli | Moldova | Israel | 2005 |
United States | Israel | 2009 | |
Jillian Schwartz | United States | Israel | 2010 |
Girmaw Amare | Ethiopia | Israel | [7] |
Aimeru Almeya | Ethiopia | Israel | [8] |
Ethiopia | Israel | [9] | |
Korima Chemtai | Kenya | Israel | 2016[10] |
Fiona May | Great Britain | Italy | 1994 |
Rachid Berradi | Morocco | Italy | |
Migidio Bourifa | Morocco | Italy | |
Fatna Maraoui | Morocco | Italy | 2003[11] |
Mostafa Errebbah | Morocco | Italy | 2001 |
Magdelín Martínez | Cuba | Italy | 2001 |
Libania Grenot | Cuba | Italy | 2008 |
Fabé Dia | France | Italy | 2009 |
Judit Varga | Hungary | Italy | 2011 |
Switzerland | Italy | 2011 | |
Hassane Fofana | Ivory Coast | Italy | 2011[12] |
Eseosa Desalu | Nigeria | Italy | 2012[13] |
Lamont Marcell Jacobs | United States | Italy | 2012[14] |
Jamel Chatbi | Morocco | Italy | 2013[15] |
Dariya Derkach | Ukraine | Italy | 2013[16] |
Gianni Frankis | Great Britain | Italy | 2016 |
Antonio Infantino | Great Britain | Italy | 2016[17] |
Yusneysi Santiusti | Cuba | Italy | 2016[18] |
Ariana Hilborn | United States | Latvia | 2015 |
Daniel Abenzoar-Foulé | France | Luxembourg | 2001 |
Mirjam Hess | Switzerland | Luxembourg | 2006 |
Stojan Manolev | Bulgaria | North Macedonia | 1998 |
Ilijan Manolev | Bulgaria | North Macedonia | 1998 |
Tanya Blake | Great Britain | Malta | 2002 |
Kevin Moore | Australia | Malta | 2011[19] |
Charlotte Wingfield | Great Britain | Malta | 2015 |
Troy Douglas | Bermuda | Netherlands | 1998 |
Sharon Jaklofsky | Australia | Netherlands | |
Ethiopia | Netherlands | 1998 | |
Miguel Janssen | Aruba | Netherlands | 1998 |
Nadezhda Wijenberg | Russia | Netherlands | 1999 |
Caimin Douglas | Netherlands Antilles | Netherlands | 2002 |
Brian Mariano | Netherlands Antilles | Netherlands | 2011 |
Churandy Martina | Netherlands Antilles | Netherlands | 2011 |
Lornah Kiplagat | Kenya | Netherlands | 2003 |
Germany | Netherlands | 2007 | |
Sifan Hassan | Ethiopia | Netherlands | 2013[20] |
Solomon Bockarie | Sierra Leone | Netherlands | 2015[21] |
Kenya | Netherlands | 2016[22] | |
Fernando Ramírez | Dominican Republic | Norway | |
Aham Okeke | Nigeria | Norway | |
Katarina Sederholm | Finland | Norway | 1998 |
Jaysuma Saidy Ndure | Gambia | Norway | 2007 |
Amalie Iuel | Denmark | Norway | 2015[23] |
Yared Shegumo | Ethiopia | Poland | 2004 |
Christophe Fernandes | France | Portugal | 2003 |
Nelson Évora | Cape Verde | Portugal | 2002 |
Naide Gomes | São Tomé and Príncipe | Portugal | 2002 |
Francis Obikwelu | Nigeria | Portugal | 2002 |
Yazaldes Nascimento | São Tomé and Príncipe | Portugal | 2007 |
Roman Guliy | Ukraine | Portugal | 2009 |
Vera Barbosa | Cape Verde | Portugal | 2009[24] |
Tsanko Arnaudov | Bulgaria | Portugal | 2010[25] |
Lorène Bazolo | Republic of the Congo | Portugal | 2016[26] |
Sergiu Ursu | Moldova | Romania | 2003 |
Natalya Tsyganova | Ukraine | Russia | 1994 |
Tatyana Shikolenko | Belarus | Russia | 1996 |
Lev Lobodin | Ukraine | Russia | 1996 |
Ukraine | Russia | 1998 | |
Andriy Nemchaninov | Ukraine | Russia | 1998 |
Ukraine | Russia | 1998 | |
Boris Kaveshnikov | Uzbekistan | Russia | 2000 |
Vladimir Malyavin | Turkmenistan | Russia | |
Oksana Yarygina | Uzbekistan | Russia | |
Tatyana Polnova | Turkey | Russia | 2002 |
Uzbekistan | Russia | 2000 | |
Vitaliy Sidorov | Ukraine | Russia | 2000 |
Belarus | Russia | 2001 | |
Viktor Chistiakov | Australia | Russia | 2007 |
Belarus | Russia | 2008 | |
Olga Chernogorova | Belarus | Russia | 2008 |
Rashida Khayrudinova | Uzbekistan | Russia | 2008 |
Ivan Lukyanov | Moldova | Russia | 2014 |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | Serbia | 2014 | |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | Serbia | 2014 | |
Galina Cistjaková | Russia | Slovakia | |
Dmitrij Vaľukevič | Belarus | Slovakia | 2005 |
Britta Bilač | Germany | Slovenia | 1992 |
Uros Zver | Netherlands | Slovenia | 1998 |
Merlene Ottey | Jamaica | Slovenia | 2002 |
Fabio Ruzzier | Italy | Slovenia | 2002 |
Milos Sakic | FR Yugoslavia | Slovenia | 2002 |
Marija Martinovic-Šestak | Serbia and Montenegro | Slovenia | 2006 |
Yousef El Nasri | Morocco | Spain | |
Frank Bicet | Cuba | Spain | |
Sandra Myers | United States | Spain | 1987 |
Cuba | Spain | 1998 | |
Griselda González | Argentina | Spain | 1998 |
Cora Olivero | Argentina | Spain | 1998 |
Niurka Montalvo | Cuba | Spain | 1999 |
Virginia Martínez | Cuba | Spain | 1999 |
Norfalia Carabalí | Colombia | Spain | 2000 |
Alice Matějková | Czech Republic | Spain | 2000 |
Roberto Moya | Cuba | Spain | 2001 |
Glory Alozie | Nigeria | Spain | 2002 |
Aliuska López | Cuba | Spain | 2003 |
Yesenia Centeno | Cuba | Spain | 2003 |
Joan Lino Martínez | Cuba | Spain | 2004 |
Olga Koungorova | Russia | Spain | 2005 |
Juliet Itoya | Nigeria | Spain | |
Ruth Ndoumbe | Nigeria | Spain | |
Mauritania | Spain | 2006 | |
Jackson Quiñónez | Ecuador | Spain | 2006 |
Ayad Lamdassem | Morocco | Spain | 2007[27] |
Luis Felipe Méliz | Cuba | Spain | 2008 |
Frank Casañas | Cuba | Spain | 2008 |
Alemayehu Bezabeh | Ethiopia | Spain | 2008 |
Digna Luz Murillo | Colombia | Spain | 2010 |
Abdelaziz Merzougui | Morocco | Spain | 2010[28] |
Trihas Gebre | Ethiopia | Spain | 2014[29] |
Cuba | Spain | 2014 | |
Cuba | Spain | 2014 | |
Morocco | Spain | 2014 | |
Yidiel Contreras | Cuba | Spain | 2015[30] |
Italy | Spain | 2015[31] | |
Ludmila Engquist | Russia | Sweden | 1996 |
Alhaji Jeng | Gambia | Sweden | 1999 |
Mustafa Mohamed | Somalia | Sweden | |
Alfred Shemweta | Tanzania | Sweden | 1998 |
Nil de Oliveira | Brazil | Sweden | 2010 |
Abeba Aregawi | Ethiopia | Sweden | 2013 |
Meraf Bahta | Eritrea | Sweden | 2014 |
Eritrea | Sweden | 2014 | |
Eritrea | Sweden | 2018[32] | |
Helen Barnett-Burkart | United Kingdom | Switzerland | |
Julie Baumann | Canada | Switzerland | 1991 |
Nelly Sébastien | France | Switzerland | 1998 |
Chantal Dallenbach | France | Switzerland | 2000 |
Alexander Martínez | Cuba | Switzerland | 2006 |
Ali Hakimi | Tunisia | Switzerland | 2007/2010 |
Alex Wilson | Jamaica | Switzerland | 2010[33] |
Brahian Peña | Dominican Republic | Switzerland | 2012[34] |
Tadesse Abraham | Eritrea | Switzerland | 2014[35] |
Bulgaria | Turkey | 1998[36] | |
Tatyana Polnova | Russia | Turkey | 1998[36] |
Oksana Andrusina-Mert | Russia | Turkey | 1998[36] |
Ethiopia | Turkey | 1998[36] | |
Ethiopia | Turkey | 1998[36] | |
Turkmenistan | Turkey | 1998[36] | |
Nora Ivanova-Güner | Bulgaria | Turkey | 1999 |
Svetla Mitkova-Sınırtaş | Bulgaria | Turkey | 1999 |
Elvan Abeylegesse | Ethiopia | Turkey | 1999[36] |
Anzhela Atroshchenko | Belarus | Turkey | 1999 |
Ebru Kavaklıoğlu | Russia | Turkey | 1999 |
Mirela Dulgheru-Renda | Romania | Turkey | 1999 |
Russia | Turkey | 2000 | |
Russia | Turkey | 2004 | |
Selim Bayrak | Ethiopia | Turkey | 2008[37] |
Sultan Haydar | Ethiopia | Turkey | 2008[38] |
Karin Melis Mey | South Africa | Turkey | 2008 |
Alemitu Bekele | Ethiopia | Turkey | 2009 |
İlham Tanui Özbilen | Kenya | Turkey | 2011[39] |
Ramil Guliyev | Azerbaijan | Turkey | 2013[40] |
Tarık Langat Akdağ | Kenya | Turkey | 2013[40] |
Ali Kaya | Kenya | Turkey | 2013[41] |
Ukraine | Turkey | 2013[41] | |
Şeref Osmanoğlu | Ukraine | Turkey | 2013 |
Yasmani Copello Escobar | Cuba | Turkey | 2014 |
Jak Ali Harvey | Jamaica | Turkey | 2015 |
Meryem Akda | Kenya | Turkey | 2015[42] |
Yasemin Can | Kenya | Turkey | 2016[43] |
Yunier Pérez | Cuba | Turkey | 2017 |
Polat Kemboi Arıkan | Kenya | Turkey |
To countries in Oceania[]
Name of athlete | From nation | To nation | Year |
---|---|---|---|
Youcef Abdi | Algeria | Australia | 2000 |
Zid Abou Hamed | Syria | Australia | |
Sisay Bezabeh | Ethiopia | Australia | 2000 |
Viktor Chistiakov | Russia | Australia | 1999 |
Daniela Costian | Romania | Australia | 1990 |
Nigeria | Australia | 2006 | |
Tatiana Grigorieva | Russia | Australia | 1998 |
Hans Lotz | Germany | Australia | |
Dmitri Markov | Belarus | Australia | 1999 |
Mizan Mehari | Ethiopia | Australia | 1999 |
Peter O'Donoghue | New Zealand | Australia | |
Sara Salmon | Germany | Australia | 2007 |
Italy | Australia | ||
Gemechu Woyecha | Qatar | Australia | |
Gus Nketia | Ghana | New Zealand | |
Denis Petushinskiy | Russia | New Zealand | 1998 |
Yugoslavia | New Zealand | 1998 | |
Emanuele Fuamatu | Australia | Samoa | 2009 |
See also[]
- List of sportspeople who competed for more than one nation
- Naturalized athletes of Italy
References[]
Citations[]
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- ^ https://www.usatoday.com/sports/olympics/2009-08-18-3526027641_x.htm
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“Ho preso la cittadinanza per matrimonio, ma l’atletica non c’entra niente: ho conosciuto mio marito quando non gareggiavo più, mentre lavoravo a un campo estivo. Ci siamo sposati cinque anni fa ma ho aspettato un po’ prima di prendere la naturalizzazione”
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Sources[]
Categories:
- Sport of athletics-related lists
- Lists of track and field athletes
- Change of nationality in sport