Innocent Egbunike notable achievement was winning the Summer Universiade Games in 1983. Innocent Egbunike won a gold medal for the 200m.
But his main attainment was the bronze at the Olympic Games in 1984 for the relay race 4x400m. Another Egbunike’s win was at the All Africa Games in 1987 in Nairobi.
To get around Kenya, Nigeria had to win the last relay race 4×400m. Kenyan athletes had an advantage of 30 meters, but Egbunike managed to reduce the gap. He overcame the race, and Nigeria won the Games.
Innocent Egbunike (born November 30, 1961) is a former sprinter from Nigeria.
He studied at Azusa Pacific University, where he still holds the school record at 400 metres[1] and the automatically timed NAIA meet record at 200 metres.[2]
At the 1985 Summer Universiade, he won the 400 metres. At the regional level, he won the 1987 All-Africa Games as well as three gold medals at the African Championships.
He won an Olympic bronze medal in 4 x 400 metres relay in Los Angeles 1984. He finished sixth in the final of the individual 400 metres contest. Four years later in Seoul, he placed fifth. Besides, he won a silver medal in the 400 metres at the 1987 World Championships.
He also won the gold medal in the 200 metres at the 1983 Summer Universiade with a personal best of 20.42 seconds; he followed this by finishing 6th in a world-class field in the 200-metre final at the 1983 World Championships in Athletics in Helsinki.
He also won the Soviet 100 metres in 1983.
Post-athletics
After retiring from competition he became a coach. He was the coach of the Nigerian track and field team at the 1996 and 2000 Olympics and head coach at the 2008 Olympics.
He was the coach of Angelo Taylor, the gold medalist in the 400m hurdles at the 2008 Olympics, coach of Chris Brown, the fourth-place finisher in the 400m at the 2008 Olympic Games.
He is currently the head coach of Pasadena City College's track and field team.
Egbunike is good friends with former Kansas City Chiefs' running back Christian Okoye and met him when they were both pieces of training for Nigeria's national track and field team.
While at Asuza Pacific, he told coaches about Okoye's ability in the discus and they decided to offer Okoye a scholarship for track and field.
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