Rosemary Chukwuma

Rosemary Chukwuma
	Rosemary Chukwuma (in the green top) in 2023
Personal information
Born	5 December 2001 (age 22); Ekwashi, Ebonyi State, Nigeria
Sport
Sport	Athletics
Event	Sprints
College team	South Plains Texans (2020–2021)
Achievements and titles
Personal bests	100 m: 10.88 (2024); 200 m: 22.33 (2022);
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing Nigeria
African Games
African U20 Championships
Youth Olympic Games
African Youth Games

Rosemary Chukwuma (born 5 December 2001) 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 × 100 metres relay at the 2019 African Games. In 2018, she won a gold medal in the 100 metres at the Summer Youth Olympics, clocking 11.17 seconds.^[4]^[5]^[6]

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 × 100 m relay team in 42.75 seconds. In the summer she won a gold medal with the 4 × 100 m relay team at the 2018 African Championships in Asaba but did not start over the 200 m event. Earlier, she won double gold at the 2018 African Youth Games in Algiers over 100 m and 200 m and thus qualified for the Summer Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires, where she won the 100 m gold medal.^[7]^[8]

In 2019, she won triple gold at the Junior African Championships in Abidjan with 11.62 seconds and 23.81 seconds finishes over 100 m and 200 m respectively, and in 45.56 seconds with the Nigerian 4 × 100 m relay team. In early May, she ran in the 4 × 100 m relay for Nigeria 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 m, where she did not start. She also won gold with the Nigerian relay team in 44.16 seconds.