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  Glory Alozie

  ATHLETE

  1977 - Today

  Glory Alozie

  Gloria “Glory” Alozie Oluchi (born 30 December 1977) is a former track and field athlete competing mostly in hurdling. Born in Nigeria, she represented her country of birth and Spain. The world junior second placer from 1996, she went on to have a successful senior career, although she has never won a global international event (placing second on five occasions). Read more on Wikipedia

  Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Glory Alozie has received more than 43,557 page views. Her biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Glory Alozie is the 3,857th most popular athlete (down from 2,922nd in 2019), the 159th most popular biography from Nigeria (down from 126th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Nigerian Athlete.

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  Among athletes, Glory Alozie ranks 3,857 out of 6,025. Befo

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  1999 was the year Nigeria’s legendary sprint hurdler Glory Alozie cemented her place on the world stage, and it was at the World Athletics Championships staged in the city of Seville that she made her breakthrough.

  She had earlier shown great promise at the World Junior Championships three years prior in Sydney. Her hunger for success from that point kept increasing as she posted remarkable performances at continental and global events.

  Fast forward to her first World outdoor Championships outing, she stunned doubters, equaling her 12.44s African Record set about a year ago, to pick the Silver medal in the 100m hurdles behind USA’s Gail Devers (12.37s).

  Previously in March at the Maebashi World Indoors, she also won Silver in the women’s 60m hurdles, becoming the first Nigerian athlete to win medals in the same year at the World indoor and outdoor championships.

  Worthy of note is that the 1999 World Championships was one to remember on a national level as it saw Nigeria win two medals at the same competition for the first time in history, with Francis Obikwelu gett