Emma Nwofor

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Emma Nwofor
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2025 UK Athletics Championships
Personal information
Born (1996-08-22) 22 August 1996 (age 29)
Sport
Sport Athletics
Event Heptathlon
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)60m: 7.79 (Manchester, 2022)
100m: 12.28 (Tucson, 2021)
200m: 24.95 (Champaign, 2021)
60m hurdles: 8.07 (Geneva, 2020)
100m hurdles 12.87 (London, 2025)
Heptathlon: 5685 (Champaign, 2021)
Pentathlon: 4113 (Geneva, 2020)

Emma Nwofor (born 22 August 1996) is a British multi-event athlete. She was the champion of heptathlon at the 2018 British Athletics Championships. She finished runner-up at the 2025 British Indoor Athletics Championships over 60 metres hurdles. [1]

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Career

In January 2018, she was selected to represent Great Britain in the pentathlon at the Indoor Combined Events International in Madrid, placing ninth overall. [2] [3] Competing for Brunel University London she won three medals at the British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS) indoor national athletics championships in Sheffield in 2018; gold in the 60 metres hurdles and high jump, and bronze in the long jump. [4] She won the heptathlon title at the 2018 British Athletics Championships held as part of the England Combined Events Championships in Bedford in 2018. [5]

After which, in the following year she began to compete for Arkansas State University in the United States, where she won the 60m hurdles at the Sun Belt Indoor Championships in February 2019, as well as having a second place finish in the heptathlon at the championships. [6] In 2020, she competed at the Big Ten Indoor Championships; placing second in the high jump, third in the pentathlon, and winning the 60 metres hurdles. [7]

A member of Newham and Essex Beagles, she made her senior international debut in the women's 60m hurdles at the 2021 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Poland, where she ran a time of 8.24 seconds in her heat. [8]

She finished second at the 2025 British Indoor Athletics Championships in Birmingham over the 60 metres hurdles in February 2025, running a time of 8.11 seconds, to finish 0.02 seconds behind race winner Abigail Pawlett. [9] [10] She lowered her personal best for the 100 metres hurdles to 12.87 seconds in London in June 2025. [11] On 2 August, she qualified for the final of the 100 metres hurdles at the 2025 UK Athletics Championships in Birmingham but was one of four athletes who failed to finish. [12] [13]

Personal life

She is from London. [14]

References

  1. "Emma Nwofor". World Athletics. Retrieved 22 Feb 2025.
  2. "GB TEAM NAMED FOR INDOOR COMBINED EVENTS INTERNATIONAL". Athletics Weekly. 9 Jan 2018. Retrieved 30 July 2025.
  3. "Madrid CZE-ESP-FRA-GBR-POL Combined Events Match". World Athletics. 28 Jan 2018. Retrieved 30 July 2025.
  4. "Brunelians score medal bonanza at BUCS". Brunel.ac.uk. 19 Feb 2018. Retrieved 25 June 2025.
  5. "England Combined Events Championships". World Athletics. 26 May 2018. Retrieved 25 June 2025.
  6. Hudgison, Chris (April 18, 2019). "Meet Emma Nwofor". Kait8.com. Retrieved 25 June 2025.
  7. "Nwofor sparkles at Big Ten meet". Vocal.media. 4 March 2020. Retrieved 30 July 2025.
  8. Chaudry, Ziad (9 March 2021). "Newham & Essex Beagles star Emma Nwofor dreaming of Tokyo Olympics". Newham Recorder. Retrieved 25 June 2025.
  9. "Azu retains British indoor men's 60m title". BBC Sport. 22 Feb 2025. Retrieved 22 Feb 2025.
  10. "WILLIAMS AND AZU CLAIM 60M TITLES IN BIRMINGHAM". British Athletics. 22 Feb 2025. Retrieved 22 Feb 2025.
  11. "Bob Vigars Classic". World Athletics. 22 June 2025. Retrieved 25 June 2025.
  12. "UK Championship". World Athletics. 2 August 2025. Retrieved 2 August 2025.
  13. "Amy Hunt takes dramatic 100m gold at UK Champs". Athletics Weekly. Retrieved 2 August 2025.
  14. "Meet Emma Nwofor: London native making immediate impact for A-State track & field". Kai8.com. April 19, 2019. Retrieved 25 June 2025.