Sunday Emmanuel (8 October 1978 – 15 January 2004 in Kaduna)Sunday Emmanuel. Sports Reference. Retrieved on 2013-10-27. was a Nigerian athlete who specialised in sprinting events. He represented his country in the 100 metres at the 2000 Summer Olympics reaching the semi-finals.
He was the runner-up in both the 100 m and 200 metres at the 1995 African Junior Athletics Championships, then won both events at the 1997 edition. His foremost individual medals were a 100 m bronze medal at the 1996 African Championships in Athletics and a silver in the 200 m at the 1998 African Championships in Athletics.
His personal bests are 10.06 for the 100 m, 20.45 for the 200 m and 6.52 for the 60 metres.
He died after an auto-accident in Kaduna, Nigeria.
Competition record Representing 1995African Junior ChampionshipsBouaké, Ivory Coast2nd100 m10.422nd200 m20.981996African ChampionshipsYaoundé, Cameroon3rd100 m10.66World Junior ChampionshipsSydney, Australia4th200 m21.11 (wind: -1.6 m/s)1997African Junior ChampionshipsIbadan, Nigeria1st100 m10.551st200 m21.121998African ChampionshipsDakar, Senegal2nd200 m20.451999World ChampionshipsSeville, Spain49th (qf)200 m21.12All-Africa GamesJohannesburg, South Africa5th200 m20.752000Olympic GamesSydney, Australia14th (sf)100 m10.458th (h)4 × 100 m relay38.97Did not finish in the semifinal.2001World Indoor ChampionshipsEdmonton, Canada52nd (h)60 m7.18World ChampionshipsEdmonton, Canada10th (h)4 × 100 m relay39.102002Commonwealth GamesManchester, United Kingdom6th4 × 100 m relay39.01African ChampionshipsRadès, Tunisia1st4 × 100 m relay39.76
Personal bests Outdoor 100 metres – 10.06 (Enugu 1997) 200 metres – 20.45 (-0.9 m/s) (Dakar 1998) Indoor 60 metres – 6.52 (Chemnitz 2000) 200 metres – 21.20 (Piraeus 1999)
References