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Chioma Ajunwa

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Chioma Ajunwa-Opara (born 25 December 1970) – also known as Chioma Ajunwa – is a Nigerian former track and field athlete and football player, notable for being the first Nigerian to win Olympic gold at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, and the first black African woman to win an Olympic gold medal in a field event. A member of the Nigerian Police Force, Ajunwa remains the only woman to compete at both the FIFA Women's World Cup as a footballer and the Olympics as a track and field athlete. In December 2017, Ajunwa launched the Chioma Ajunwa-Okpara Foundation to discover new Nigerian stars in sports. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Chioma Ajunwa has received more than 170,948 page views. Her biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Chioma Ajunwa is the 3,846th most popular athlete (down from 3,068th in 2019), the 158th most popular biography from Nigeria (down from 135th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Nigerian Athlete.

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  • 41.18

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.00

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.97

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Chioma Ajunwa ranks 3,846 out of 6,025. Before her are Natalia Kaczmarek, Tõnu Tõniste, Sara Kolak, Vladimir Vujasinović, Raz Hershko, and Zorana Arunović. After her are Vsevolods Zeļonijs, Alberto Martinez, Mike McFarlane, Caterina Bosetti, Sergey Kirdyapkin, and Katrin Wagner-Augustin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1970, Chioma Ajunwa ranks 894. Before her are Paul Allender, Russell Peters, Mike Burns, Margarete Schramböck, Shobana, and Jimmy Sheirgill. After her are Joni Ernst, Nicky Katt, James MacDonough, Vanessa Taylor, Hiroyuki Inagaki, and Susan Tedeschi.

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In Nigeria

Among people born in Nigeria, Chioma Ajunwa ranks 158 out of 309. Before her are Lukman Haruna (1990), Benedict Iroha (1969), Sunday Bada (1969), Innocent Emeghara (1989), Alloysius Agu (1967), and Peter Obi (1961). After her are Glory Alozie (1977), Moses Simon (1995), Justice Christopher (1981), Ogenyi Onazi (1992), Wunmi Mosaku (1986), and Arnaut Danjuma (1997).

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Among ATHLETES In Nigeria

Among athletes born in Nigeria, Chioma Ajunwa ranks 5. Before her are Francis Obikwelu (1978), Simon Yates (null), Charity Opara (1972), and Sunday Bada (1969). After her are Glory Alozie (1977), Gloria Kemasuode (1979), Uchenna Emedolu (1976), Mary Onyali-Omagbemi (1968), Falilat Ogunkoya (1968), Jude Monye (1973), and Deji Aliu (1975).

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