The man Innocent Egbunike
He studied at Azusa Pacific University,
where he still holds the school record at 400 metres[1] and the automatically timed NAIA meet record at 200 metres.
At the 1985 Summer Universiade he
won the 400 metres. At the regional level he won the 1987 All-Africa
Games as well as three gold medals at the African
Championships.
He won an Olympic bronze
medal in 4 x 400 Metres
relay in Los Angeles 1984. He
finished sixth in the final of the individual 400 metrescontest. Four years later in Seoul he placed fifth.
In addition he won a silver medal in the 400 metres at the 1987 World
Championships.
He also won the gold medal
in the 200 metres at the 1983 Summer Universiade with a
personal best of 20.42 seconds; he followed this by finishing 6th in a world
class field in the 200 metre final at the 1983 World
Championships in Athletics in Helsinki.
He also won the Soviet 100
metres in 1983.
Post
athletics
After retiring from
competition he became a coach. He was coach of the Nigerian track and field
team at the 1996 and 2000 Olympics, and head coach at the 2008 Olympics. He was
coach of Angelo Taylor, the gold medalist in the
400m hurdles at the 2008 Olympics, coach of Chris Brown, the fourth-place
finisher in the 400m at the 2008 Olympic Games. He is currently the head coach
of Pasadena City College's track
and field team.
Innocent Egbunike
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Personal information
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Born
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November
30, 1961
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Medal record
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