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Place of Birth: Edo State, Nigeria
About Vivian Chukwuemeka
- Vivian Chukwuemeka (born 4 May 1975) is a Nigerian shot putter and two-time Olympian.
- She won the gold medal in the shot put at the 2002 Commonwealth Games and has won three consecutive titles at the All-Africa Games from 1999 to 2007.
- She was the African Champion in the event in 2002, 2006 and 2008.
- She also competes in discus throw and hammer throw, but not on world level. Her personal best throw is 18.43 metres, achieved in April 2003 in Walnut.
- This is the African record.She competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics and the World Championships in 2003 and 2005 without reaching the finals.
- She won a silver medal at the 2006 Commonwealth Games.She graduated from Azusa Pacific University in 2006 with a Bachelor of Social Work.She received a two-year ban from athletics for a failed drug test at the 2009 Nigerian Championships.
- Chukwuemeka had an intense stand-off with the Athletics Federation of Nigeria.
- Her "B" sample had several clerical errors, including inconsistencies in bottle numbers and the meeting at which the sample was taken, and she was refused permission to have a representative present at the second testing in South Africa.
- She accused Nigerian doping officers of corruption and sexual harassment, as well as accusing the federation president Solomon Ogba of coercing Amaka Ogoegbunam to implicate her in drug distribution.
- Her claims were dismissed by the appeals panel and her two-year ban from the IAAF remained.Chukwuemeka returned to competition in 2012 and failed a second drugs test - for the anabolic steroid stanozolol - shortly before the Olympic Games.
- Subsequently, she was given a lifetime ban from competition.
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