Florence Ekpo-Umoh
Olympic athlete
1977 –
Who is Florence Ekpo-Umoh?
Florence Ekpo-Umoh is a Nigerian-German sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres.
She last competed for her birth country Nigeria at the 1994 World Junior Championships. She defected to Germany in 1995 during a training camp there, married her German trainer in 1998 and received German citizenship in 2000. Since 1998, she represented the sports club USC Mainz.
In 2003, Ekpo-Umoh was found guilty of stanozolol doping. The sample was delivered on 24 January 2003 in an out-of-competition test in South Africa. She was suspended from the sport until March 2005.
Her personal best time is 51.13 seconds, achieved in June 2001 in Stuttgart.
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