Rosemary Chukwuma


Rosemary Chukwuma is a Nigerian sprinter. She won a bronze medal in the 4 × 100 metres relay at the 2018 Commonwealth Games as well as a gold medal in the 4 x 100 metres relay at the 2019 African Games. In 2018, she won a gold medal in 100 m at the Summer Youth Olympics.

Career

Rosemary Chukwuma gained her first international experience at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia where she won a bronze medal behind the teams from England and Jamaica with the Nigerian 4 x 100 meter relay team in 42.75 seconds. In the summer she won a gold medal with the relay team at the 2018 African Championships in Asaba but did not start over the 200 meters event. Earlier, she won double gold at the 2018 African Youth Games in Algiers over 100 and 200 meters and thus qualified for the Summer Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires, where she won the 100 metres gold medal.
In 2019, she won triple gold at the Junior African Championships in Abidjan with 11.62 seconds and 23.81 seconds over 100 and 200 meters, and in 45.56 seconds with the 4 x 100 metres relay team. In early May, she retired with the season at the IAAF World Relays in Yokohama with 45.07 seconds in the first round. Then she took part in the African Games for the first time in Rabat and reached the final of the 200 meters, where she did not start. She also won gold with the Nigerian relay team in 44.16 seconds.