List of eligibility transfers in athletics

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This is a list of track and field athletes who have moved to compete for another national association or federation. Such moves are called transfers of allegiance by the World Athletics.[1]

To countries in Africa[edit]

Name of athlete From nation To nation Year
Yasmina Omrani  France  Algeria
Fabienne Feraez  France  Benin 2003
Lætitia Bambara  France  Burkina Faso
Fred Salle  Great Britain  Cameroon 1986
Sylvie Mballa Éloundou  France  Cameroon 2005
Georgina Toth  Hungary  Cameroon
Nusrat Ceesay  Great Britain  Gambia 2011
Mensah Elliot  Great Britain  Gambia 2011
Tim Abeyie  Great Britain  Ghana 2011
Sean Safo-Antwi  Great Britain  Ghana 2016
Fatmata Fofanah  United States  Guinea 2006
Gabriela Kouassi  France  Ivory Coast
Rosvitha Okou  France  Ivory Coast 2012
Leonard Mucheru Maina  Bahrain  Kenya 2007
Sultan Tucker  United States  Liberia
Kia Davis  United States  Liberia 2008
Brahim Lahlafi  France  Morocco 2007
Tosin Oke  Great Britain  Nigeria 2009
Monzavous Edwards  United States  Nigeria 2014
Mark Jelks  United States  Nigeria 2014
Nichole Denby  United States  Nigeria 2014
Lamberte Nyabamikazi  Burkina Faso  Rwanda 2003
Amy Sène  France  Senegal
Céline Laporte  France  Seychelles 2003
Tom Petranoff  United States  South Africa 1991
Sherwin Vries  Namibia  South Africa 2003
Yamilé Aldama  Cuba  Sudan
( United Kingdom		 2004
2011)
Todd Matthews-Jouda  United States  Sudan 2003
Sarah Bensaad  France  Tunisia
Florence Ezeh  France  Togo 2005
Sandrine Thiébaud-Kangni  France  Togo
Gerald Phiri  Great Britain  Zambia 2009

To countries in the Americas[edit]

Name of athlete From nation To nation Year
Amy Harris  Great Britain  Antigua and Barbuda 2014
Gustavo Nicolas Pereira Altez  Uruguay  Brazil 2006
Yvonne Saunders  Jamaica  Canada 1973
Anton Skerritt  Trinidad and Tobago  Canada
Steve Agar  Dominica  Canada 1998
Graeme Fell  Great Britain  Canada 1983
Karlene Haughton  Jamaica  Canada 1998
Philomena Mensah  Ghana  Canada 1999
Martha Adusei  Ghana  Canada 1999
Melissa Feinstein  United States  Canada 2000
Nicole Haynes  United States  Canada 2000
Charles Allen  Guyana  Canada 2002
Maresa Cadienhead  Jamaica  Canada 2002
Philipp Rist  Switzerland  Canada 2002
Dariusz Slowik  Poland  Denmark  Canada 2004
Lieja Tunks  Netherlands  Canada 2006
Jonathan Brown  Great Britain  Canada 2008
Lemlem Ogbasilassie  Eritrea  Canada 2008
Danny Kassap  Democratic Republic of the Congo  Canada 2008
Justin Rodhe  United States  Canada 2012
Kareem Streete-Thompson  United States  Cayman Islands 1999
Santiago Ford  Cuba  Chile 2023[2]
Jérôme Romain  France  Dominica 2008
Alvin Harrison  United States  Dominican Republic 2009[3]
Erison Hurtault  United States  Dominica 2008
Charles Allen  Canada  Guyana 2000
Jenea McCammon  United States  Guyana 2014
Dudley Dorival  United States  Haiti 1999
Nadine Faustin-Parker  United States  Haiti
Vanessa Clerveaux  United States  Haiti
Yvonne Mai-Graham  Germany  Jamaica 1993
Liliana Allen  Cuba  Mexico 1998
Bayano Kamani  United States  Panama
Jose Antonio Parrilla  United States  Puerto Rico 2000
Allen Simms  United States  Puerto Rico 2005
Kimberly Barrett  Jamaica  Puerto Rico 2006
Steve Brown  United States  Trinidad and Tobago 1997
Aaron Armstrong  United States  Trinidad and Tobago 2005
Wayne Davis  United States  Trinidad and Tobago 2011[4]
Kevon Pierre  Saint Kitts and Nevis  Trinidad and Tobago 2005
Christopher Hercules  United States  Trinidad and Tobago 2006
Olga Appell  Mexico  United States 1994
Abdihakem Abdirahman  Somalia  United States 2000
Ibrahim Mohamed Aden  Somalia  United States 2001
Michael Aish  New Zealand  United States 2010
Natasha Alleyne-Gibson  Trinidad and Tobago  United States 2000
Bolota Asmerom  Eritrea  United States 2002
Dominique DeGramont  Haiti  United States 2007
Maggie Chan-Roper  Hong Kong  United States 2006
Colleen De Reuck  South Africa  United States 2002
Sandra Farmer-Patrick  Jamaica  United States 1989
Philemon Hanneck  Zimbabwe  United States 1999
Eddy Hellebuyck  Belgium  United States 2000
Mbarak Hussein  Kenya  United States 2004
Alex Jodidio  Netherlands  United States 2008
Khalid Khannouchi  Morocco  United States 2000
David Kimani  Kenya  United States 2002
Bernard Lagat  Kenya  United States 2005
Sydney Maree  South Africa  United States 1984
Adam Montague  Australia  United States 2006
Miguel Nuci  Mexico  United States 2007
Christy Opara-Thompson  Nigeria  United States 1998
Nadia Prasad  France  United States 2000
Yuliana Pérez  Cuba  United States 2000
Simeon Sawe  Kenya  United States 2006
Colleen Scott  Jamaica  United States 2007
Allen Simms  Puerto Rico  United States 2008
Stanisława Walasiewicz  Poland  United States 1947
Chen Yueling  China  United States 2000
David Macharia Yuot  Sudan  United States 2007
Atalelech Ketema  Ethiopia  United States 2012
Benson Osoro  Kenya  United States 2012
Erich Cordero  Cuba  United States 2012
Yandy Nelson Alvarez  Cuba  United States 2012
Betzaira Martinez  Mexico  United States 2012
Misiker Demissie  Bahrain  United States 2016
Jeff Jackson  United States  United States Virgin Islands 1999
Valma Bass  Saint Kitts and Nevis  United States Virgin Islands 2002

To countries in Asia[edit]

Name of athlete From nation To nation Year
Aadam Ismaeel Khamis  Kenya  Bahrain
Ishaq Isa Abedeen  Kenya  Bahrain
Bader Khalil Bader  Ethiopia  Bahrain
Saleh Marzooq Bakheet  Ethiopia  Bahrain
Sameer Kamal Ali  Kenya  Bahrain
Yusuf Saad Kamel  Kenya  Bahrain 2003
Maryam Yusuf Jamal  Ethiopia  Bahrain 2004
Mushir Salem Jawher  Kenya  Bahrain 2003
Abel Yagout Jawher  Kenya  Bahrain 2003
Belal Mansoor Ali  Kenya  Bahrain
Tareq Mubarak Taher  Kenya  Bahrain 2005
Hasan Mahboob  Kenya  Bahrain 2006
Rashid Mohamed  Morocco  Bahrain 2002
Musa Amer Obaid  Kenya  Bahrain
Rashid Ramzi  Morocco  Bahrain
Nadia Ejjafini  Morocco  Bahrain
Shaheen Faraj  Kenya  Bahrain
Abdeen Shaka  Kenya  Bahrain
Mona Salem Jaber  Kenya  Bahrain
Khamis Sultan Dawood  Kenya  Bahrain
Yaser Belal Mansour  Morocco  Bahrain
Abdelhak Zakaria  Morocco  Bahrain
Brandon Simpson  Jamaica  Bahrain 2006
Khalid Kamal Yaseen  Kenya  Bahrain
Bilisuma Shugi  Ethiopia  Bahrain
Dejenee Regassa  Ethiopia  Bahrain
Tejitu Daba  Ethiopia  Bahrain
Shitaye Eshete  Ethiopia  Bahrain
Kemi Adekoya  Nigeria  Bahrain 2014
Sadik Mikhou  Morocco  Bahrain
Zheng Ninali  Canada  China 2021
Leila Rajabi  Belarus  Iran 2007
Takeshi Fujiwara  El Salvador  Japan 2013
Takhir Mamashayev  Belarus  Kazakhstan 2001
Mohamed Suleiman  Somalia  Qatar
Onèsphore Nkunzimana  Burundi  Qatar
Ahmad Hassan Abdullah  Kenya  Qatar
Saif Saaeed Shaheen  Kenya  Qatar 2003
James Kwalia  Kenya  Qatar 2004
Nicholas Kemboi  Kenya  Qatar 2005
Daham Najim Bashir  Kenya  Qatar
Gamal Belal Salem  Kenya  Qatar
Essa Ismail Rashed  Kenya  Qatar
Majed Saeed Sultan  Kenya  Qatar
Salem Amer Al-Badri  Kenya  Qatar
Thamer Kamal Ali  Kenya  Qatar
Felix Kibore  Kenya  Qatar 2007
Rashid K. Jamal  Ethiopia  Qatar
Mubarak Hassan Shami  Kenya  Qatar
Edrees Kamal Eisa  Ethiopia  Qatar
Faisal Bader Shebto  Kenya  Qatar
Moustafa Ahmed Shebto  Uganda  Qatar 2004
Samuel Francis  Nigeria  Qatar 2007
Charles Bett Koech  Kenya  Qatar 2007
Femi Ogunode  Nigeria  Qatar 2010
Ashraf Amgad El-Seify  Egypt  Qatar
Du Xianhui  China  Singapore 2003
Zhang Guirong  China  Singapore 2003
Juttaporn Krasaeyan  China  Thailand
Saeed Besweidan  Yemen  United Arab Emirates 2000
Alia Saeed Mohammed  Ethiopia  United Arab Emirates 2010
Marian Adullah Mubarak  Ethiopia  United Arab Emirates 2010
Andrey Abduvaliyev  Tajikistan  Uzbekistan 1997
Erkinjon Isakov  Russia  Uzbekistan 1999
Mariya Sokova  Russia  Uzbekistan

To countries in Europe[edit]

Name of athlete From nation To nation Year
Ljudmila Ninova-Rudoll  Bulgaria  Austria
Mark McKoy  Canada  Austria 1994
Valentina Fedjuschina  Ukraine  Austria 1999
Serhiy Osovych  Ukraine  Austria 2003
Nora Ivanova  Turkey  Austria 2008
Hanna Skydan  Ukraine  Azerbaijan 2015[5]
Evans Chebet  Kenya  Azerbaijan 2016[6]
Andrey Makarov  Russia  Belarus 1998
Aleksandr Furso  Russia  Belarus 1999
Takhir Mamashayev  Uzbekistan  Belarus 2001
Sergey Litvinov  Russia  Belarus 2004
Mohammed Mourhit  Morocco  Belgium 1997
Yelena Golesheva-Scheers  Russia  Belgium 1998
Stefanija Statkuviené  Lithuania  Belgium 1998
Olivier Sekanyambo  DR Congo  Belgium 1999
Élodie Ouédraogo  Burkina Faso  Belgium 2000
Hassan Mourhit  Morocco  Belgium 2003
Irina Sustelo  Portugal  Belgium 2005
Atelaw Yeshetela  Ethiopia  Belgium 2008
Svetlana Bolshakova  Russia  Belgium 2008
Mira Preradović  Yugoslavia  Bosnia and Herzegovina 2002
Borivoje Stanić  Serbia and Montenegro  Bosnia and Herzegovina 2003
Mirjana Kalajdžić  Serbia and Montenegro  Bosnia and Herzegovina 2003
Predrag Momirović  Serbia and Montenegro  Bosnia and Herzegovina 2004
Tanja Glicic  Serbia and Montenegro  Bosnia and Herzegovina 2006
Maja Jancic  Serbia and Montenegro  Bosnia and Herzegovina 2006
Milan Radulović  Serbia and Montenegro  Bosnia and Herzegovina 2006
Lucia Kimani  Kenya  Bosnia and Herzegovina 2007
András Haklits  Hungary  Croatia 1998
Roland Varga  Hungary  Croatia 2008
Lisa Nemec  United States  Croatia
Marianna Zachariadi  Greece  Cyprus 2008
Dimitrios Chondrokoukis  Greece  Cyprus 2013[7]
Róbert Štefko  Slovakia  Czech Republic 2004
Josef Karas  Canada  Czech Republic 2005
Robert Kiplagat Andersen  Kenya  Denmark
Wilson Kipketer  Kenya  Denmark
Larissa Netšeporuk  Ukraine  Estonia
Eduard Hämäläinen  Belarus  Finland 1997
Natalia Kilpeläinen  Russia  Finland 2005
Wilson Kirwa  Kenya  Finland 1998
Francis Kirwa  Kenya  Finland 2005
Frantz Kruger  South Africa  Finland 2007
Abdelkader Bakhtache  Algeria  France 2006
Eunice Barber  Sierra Leone  France 1999
Abdellah Béhar  Morocco  France
Saïd Berioui  Morocco  France 2009
Abdessemad Bouhattach  Morocco  France 2003
Mickaël Conjungo  Central African Republic  France
Ahmed Douhou  Ivory Coast  France 2002
Lueyi Dovy  Gabon  France 2002
Sylvie Mballa Éloundou  Cameroon  France 2002
Hanan Farhoun  Morocco  France 2006
Fanjanteino Félix  Madagascar  France 2009
Bouchra Ghezielle  Morocco  France 2005
Hind Dehiba  Morocco  France 2004
Latifa Essarokh  Morocco  France 1996
Rachid Ghanmouni  Morocco  France 2010
Fatima Hajjami  Morocco  France
Abderrahim El Haouzy  Morocco  France
Numidia Kafri  Algeria  France
Héni Kechi  Tunisia  France 2004
Fatiha Klilech-Fauvel  Morocco  France 2003
Sylwia Korzeniowska  Poland  France 2010
El Hassan Lahssini  Morocco  France 2001
Irba Lakhal  Morocco  France 2002
Driss Maazouzi  Morocco  France 2000
Rakiya Maraoui-Quétier  Morocco  France 1998
Margaret Maury  Kenya  France 2002
Françoise Mbango Etone  Cameroon  France 2010
Rodica Nagel  Romania  France
Simon Munyutu  Kenya  France 2006
Antoinette Nana Djimou Ida  Cameroon  France
Emmanuel Ngom Priso  Cameroon  France 2009
Issa-Aimé Nthépé  Cameroon  France 1999
Teresa Nzola Meso Ba  Angola  France 2003
Nicole Ramalalanirina  Madagascar  France 1998
Ferenc Salbert  Hungary  France
Mohamed Serbouti  Morocco  France
Ismaïl Sghyr  Morocco  France 2002
Yvon Sialo-Ngboda  Central African Republic  France 2007
Melanie Skotnik  Germany  France 2005
Brahim Lahlafi  Morocco  France 2006
Jérôme Romain  Dominica  France 1999
Nouredine Smain  Algeria  France 2005
James Theuri  Kenya  France 2006
Cheikh Touré  Senegal  France 2000
Dauphin Tumatai  French Polynesia  France 2007
Ibrahima Wade  Senegal  France 2000
Larbi Zéroual  Morocco  France 1999
Fabien Bernabe  Spain  France 2015
Ousmane Diarra  Senegal  France
Halina Górecka  Poland  West Germany 1965
Jürgen May  East Germany  West Germany 1967
Andrzej Badeński  Poland  West Germany 1974
Józef Szmidt  Poland  West Germany 1975
Władysław Kozakiewicz  Poland  West Germany 1984
Wolfgang Schmidt  East Germany  West Germany 1987
Nischan Daimer  Armenia  Germany
Andrei Tivontchik  Belarus  Germany 1994
Alina Astafei  Romania  Germany 1995
Nastja Ryjikh  Russia  Germany 1995
Luminita Zaituc  Romania  Germany 1996
Irina Mikitenko  Kazakhstan  Germany 1998
Nkechi Madubuko  Nigeria  Germany
Florence Ekpo-Umoh  Nigeria  Germany 2000
Alexsey Bogdasin  Kazakhstan  Germany 2006
Sergey Lytvynov Jr.  Belarus  Germany 2007
Eleni Gebremehdin-Gebrehiwot  Ethiopia  Germany 2014
Julia Bleasdale  Great Britain  Germany 2016
Zola Budd  South Africa  Great Britain 1984
 Great Britain  South Africa 1992
Fred Salle  Cameroon  Great Britain 1992
Birhan Dagne  Ethiopia  Great Britain 1998
Bobby Farren  Ireland  Great Britain 1998
Kathy Butler  Canada  Great Britain 2000
James McIlroy  Ireland  Great Britain 2000
Irie Hill  Germany  Great Britain 2000
Kassa Tadesse  Ethiopia  Great Britain 2001
Samson Oni  Nigeria  Great Britain 2003
Malachi Davis  United States  Great Britain 2004
Nathalie Harvey  Australia  Great Britain 2004
Simon Shirley  Australia  Great Britain
Nicholas Stuart  Canada  Great Britain 2005
Gerenshi Tamirat  Ethiopia  Great Britain 2005
Germaine Mason  Jamaica  Great Britain 2006
Tomas Abyu  Ethiopia  Great Britain 2006
Taneisha Robinson-Scanlon  Ireland  Great Britain 2006
Michael Bingham  United States  Great Britain 2008
Roald Bradstock  United States  Great Britain 2009
Tiffany Porter  United States  Great Britain 2010
Shara Proctor  Anguilla  Great Britain 2010
Shana Cox  United States  Great Britain 2011
Julian Reid  Jamaica  Great Britain 2011
Stefanie Reid  Canada  Great Britain 2010
Yamilé Aldama  Cuba  Sudan 2004
 Sudan  United Kingdom 2011
Zharnel Hughes  Anguilla  Great Britain 2015
Victoria Dronsfield  Sweden  Great Britain 2015
Alexandros Terzian  Argentina  Greece
Mirela Maniani  Albania  Greece 1997
Simona Staicu  Romania  Hungary 2000
Éva Miklós  Romania  Hungary 2003
Attila Farkas  Israel  Hungary 2004
Tommy Kafri  Israel  Hungary 2007
Jeff Cassin  Canada  Ireland 1998
Dermot Donnelly  Great Britain  Ireland 1998
Sean Wade  New Zealand  Ireland 1999
Adrienne McIvor  Australia  Ireland 2000
Stephan Hayward  Great Britain  Ireland 2001
Alistair Cragg  South Africa  Ireland 2002
Alkin Westley  Canada  Ireland 2003
Jolene Elizabeth Byrne  United States  Ireland 2004
Jerome Krahenbuhl  Switzerland  Ireland 2004
Samuel Okantey  Ghana  Ireland 2002
Brendan Reilly  Great Britain  Ireland 1999
Sarah Reilly  Great Britain  Ireland 2000
Brian Doyle  Great Britain  Ireland 2006
Mark Crowley  Great Britain  Ireland 2008
Kevin Brown  Great Britain  Ireland 2008
Zoë Brown  Great Britain  Ireland 2008
Stephen Murphy  Great Britain  Ireland 2010
Ben Reynolds  Great Britain  Ireland 2012
Liam Zamel-Paez  Australia  Ireland 2014
Barbara Sanchez  France  Ireland 2014
Kevin Batt  Australia  Ireland 2014
Alex Wright  Great Britain  Ireland 2015
Katie Kirk  Great Britain  Ireland 2015
Asaf Bimro  Ethiopia  Israel 1984
Mark Handelsman  South Africa  Israel
Aleksey Bazarov  Soviet Union  Israel
Aleksandr Fingert  Soviet Union  Israel
Vadim Bavikin  Soviet Union  Israel 1990
Ayele Seteng  Ethiopia  Israel 1991
Brian Mondschein  United States  Israel 2010
Wodage Zvadya  Ethiopia  Israel 1991
Danny Krasnov  Soviet Union  Israel 1991
Svetlana Gnezdilov  Ukraine  Israel 1996
Sergey Lukashok  Ukraine  Israel
Mukat Derba  Ethiopia  Israel
Konstantin Semyonov  Belarus  Israel
Niels Kruller  Netherlands  Israel 1998
Alex Rosen  United States  Israel 1998
Aleksandr Averbukh  Russia  Israel 1999
Irina Lenskiy  Russia  Israel 1999
Aleksandr Porkhomovskiy  Russia  Israel 1999
Dan Middleman  United States  Israel 2000
Anna Tkach  Russia  Israel 2003
Niki Palli  Moldova  Israel 2005
Dustin Emrani  United States  Israel 2009
Jillian Schwartz  United States  Israel 2010
Girmaw Amare  Ethiopia  Israel [8]
Aimeru Almeya  Ethiopia  Israel [9]
Berihun Wuve  Ethiopia  Israel [10]
Korima Chemtai  Kenya  Israel 2016[11]
Fiona May  Great Britain  Italy 1994
Rachid Berradi  Morocco  Italy
Migidio Bourifa  Morocco  Italy
Fatna Maraoui  Morocco  Italy 2003[12]
Mostafa Errebbah  Morocco  Italy 2001
Magdelín Martínez  Cuba  Italy 2001
Libania Grenot  Cuba  Italy 2008
Fabé Dia  France  Italy 2009
Judit Varga  Hungary  Italy 2011
Gregory Bianchi  Switzerland  Italy 2011
Hassane Fofana  Ivory Coast  Italy 2011[13]
Eseosa Desalu  Nigeria  Italy 2012[14]
Lamont Marcell Jacobs  United States  Italy 2012[15]
Jamel Chatbi  Morocco  Italy 2013[16]
Dariya Derkach  Ukraine  Italy 2013[17]
Gianni Frankis  Great Britain  Italy 2016
Antonio Infantino  Great Britain  Italy 2016[18]
Yusneysi Santiusti  Cuba  Italy 2016[19]
Ariana Hilborn  United States  Latvia 2015
Daniel Abenzoar-Foulé  France  Luxembourg 2001
Mirjam Hess  Switzerland  Luxembourg 2006
Stojan Manolev  Bulgaria  Macedonia 1998
Ilijan Manolev  Bulgaria  Macedonia 1998
Tanya Blake  Great Britain  Malta 2002
Kevin Moore  Australia  Malta 2011[20]
Charlotte Wingfield  Great Britain  Malta 2015
Troy Douglas  Bermuda

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