Omo Osaghae
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Representing  United States
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2014 Sopot | 60 m hurdles |
Omoghan "Omo" Osaghae (born May 18, 1988) is an American track and field athlete who competes in the sprint hurdles. He is coached by Texas Tech hurdles coach, Dion Miller. He has personal records of 7.51 seconds for the 60-meter hurdles and 13.23 seconds for the 110-meter hurdles.
He is a three-time winner of the 60-meter hurdles at the USA Indoor Track and Field Championships and the 2014 World Indoor Champion. He competed collegiately for the Texas Tech Red Raiders and won three Big 12 Conference titles (2009 and 2011 outdoors, 2009 indoors).
Born in Lubbock, Texas to Moses and Esther Osaghae, Omo Osaghae grew up in a sporting family. His father played soccer in his native Nigeria while his brother, Tim, went on to play college football with Texas Tech University. He first began to get involved in sports at Monterey High School, where he competed in track and football for the school. Coached by Roy Phelps, Omo competed in the 110m hurdles for the Texas high school state championship his junior and senior years of high school. He gained entry to study a major in accounting at Texas Tech University, which was also the alma mater of his father.
He swiftly began to make an impact in the hurdles with the Texas Tech Red Raiders team – in his first season he set an indoor best of 7.91 seconds for the 60-meter hurdles to come third at the Big 12 Conference indoor championship then placed fourth in the 110 m hurdles at the Big 12 outdoor meet with another best of 13.99 seconds. The following year he was only seventh at the Big 12 indoors, but performed much better outdoors: he came third at the Big 12 meet with a personal record of 13.86 seconds then improved to 13.65 seconds to make the final at the NCAA Men's Outdoor Track and Field Championship, where he came seventh.
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