Ifeoma Ozoeze


Ifeoma Ozoeze is an Italian former heptathlete.

Career

She finished fifteenth at the 1991 World Championships and eighth at the 1992 European Indoor Championships. In 1995, Ozoeze won a scholarship to University of California, Berkeley: she won the Pac-10 Conference the same year.

Personal life

Ozoeze's father is a Nigerian gynecologist, her Italian mother Silvana Collodo was the president of the Faculty of Literature and Philosophy of Padua.
Ozoeze was arrested in 2008 for extortion, and was placed in the women's prison of Venice. During her time in prison, she published a book titled "Perché".

National titles

Ifeoma Ozoeze has won one time the individual national championship.