Height 1.73 m | Weight 58 kg | |
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Education University of Texas at Austin Parents Comfort Okolo, David Okolo Similar Phyllis Francis, Natasha Hastings, Morolake Akinosun, Jarrion Lawson, Francena McCorory Profiles | ||
Courtney Okolo (March 15, 1994) is an American track and field sprinter who competes in the 400-meter dash. She starred at Carrollton (Texas) Newman Smith High School where she won multiple individual state championships.
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In college she ran for the Texas Longhorns. She was fourth in the 400 m at the 2013 NCAA Outdoor Championships and then the following year she completed an individual and relay double at the 2014 NCAA Outdoor Championships. She set a collegiate record in the 400 m that year when winning the Big 12 Outdoor Championships in 50.03 seconds. In April 2016, broke her own collegiate record, running 49.71 seconds at the LSU Alumni Gold Meet. Okolo won consecutive titles in the women's 400 m and 4 × 400 m relay at the 2015 NCAA Indoor Championships. In 2016 Okolo won 400m and 4x400m relay tiltes in both the Indoor and 2016 NCAA Outdoor Championships.
Internationally she won both individual and relay events for the United States at the 2013 Pan American Junior Athletics Championships and the 2015 NACAC Championships in Athletics. More gold came in the 4 × 400 m relay at the 2016 IAAF World Indoor Championships and 2016 Olympic Games.
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