Chinazo Okeke
Chinazo Okeke (born 1st August 2002) is a British indoor rowing world record holder.[1][2][3][4]. Chinazo currently holds the RP3 indoor rowing world records in four events, including the 100m, 500m, 1000m, and 1 minute[1][2][3][4]
Early Life
Chinazo Okeke was born in Bakhmut, Ukraine (formerly known as Artemivsk) in the Donetsk region, on Thursday, 1st August 2002..[4]. She attended St Wilfrid's Catholic School and graduated with eight grades of 9s in her GCSEs[5]. She then went on to secure a place to study Medicine at Emmanuel College at the University of Cambridge[4][6]. During her time at school, Chinazo was also involved in scientific research and worked with another student to produce a plastic alternative that was biodegradable to help address the issue of plastic pollution[7].
Rowing Career
Chinazo began rowing in 2022 after sustaining a knee injury while doing a medical research internship at the Koehler Lab.[8] associated with the Boston Children's Hospital in the United States[4][9]. Chinazo used to be a cross-country and track runner[10]. While practicing her running, she sustained a knee injury which left her unable to train[3][4]. She then began indoor rowing as a form of rehab for her knee and from here took it up as a sport[3][4]. She soon began training with Cambridge University Boat Club in 2023[4][11][12]. In 2024, Chinazo began breaking RP3 World-Records and she now holds the overall records in the 500m, 1000m, and 1 minute categories and the U23 records in the 100m category[1][3][4]. In 2024, Chinazo has also competed in the World Indoor Rowing Championships (WRICH)[13] which is an annual event organised by World Rowing and presented by Concept 2[14].
Other
Chinazo is a medical student at the University of Cambridge[6] and is a published first-author with an article on the peri-operative management of adults with traumatic brain injury[15]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Rankings". rp3rowing. Retrieved 2024-12-05.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "World Records". rp3rowing. Retrieved 2024-12-05.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 "A day in the life of a record-breaking rower". Varsity Online. Retrieved 2024-12-05.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 4.8 What’s Out Media Group (2024-07-17). RowingCast Episode 10: Chinazo Okeke. Retrieved 2024-12-05 – via YouTube.
- ↑ "GCSE RESULTS 2018". St Wilfrid's Catholic School. Retrieved 2024-12-05.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Emmanuel College (2021). Emmanuel College Magazine 2020-2021 (PDF). p. 323. Search this book on
- ↑ "Talented Crawley students awarded for inventing biodegradable plastic alternative that does not harm marine life". SussexWorld. 2020-04-23. Retrieved 2024-12-05.
- ↑ "Team". Koehler Lab. Retrieved 2024-12-05.
- ↑ Harvard Summer Undergraduate Research Village (2022). HSURV ABSTRACT BOOK 2022 (PDF). Harvard Summer Undergraduate Research Village. p. 74. Search this book on
- ↑ "Chinazo Okeke | runbritain rankings". www.runbritainrankings.com. Retrieved 2024-12-05.
- ↑ "CUBC announces its 4s Head Crews". Cambridge University Boat Cub. 2023-11-03. Retrieved 2024-12-05.
- ↑ "Boaties and BCDs: inside Cambridge rowing culture". Varsity Online. Retrieved 2024-12-05.
- ↑ "2024 World Rowing Indoor Championships | Time-Team". regatta.time-team.nl. Retrieved 2024-12-05.
- ↑ "World Rowing - World Rowing Indoor Championships". World Rowing. Retrieved 2024-12-05.
- ↑ Okeke, Chinazo; Zhang, Jenny; Bashford, Tom; Seah, Matthew (2024-04-01). "Perioperative management of adults with traumatic brain injury". Journal of Perioperative Practice. 34 (4): 122–128. doi:10.1177/17504589231187798. ISSN 1750-4589. PMC 10996293 Check
|pmc=value (help). PMID 37650502 Check|pmid=value (help).
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