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| show-medals = yes }} Kriss Akabusi MBE (born Kezie Uchechukwu Duru Akabusi, 28 November 1958)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=News -- Kriss Akabusi: The extraordinary story of a great performer )〕 is a former sprint and hurdling track and field athlete from the United Kingdom. His first international successes were with the British 4×400 metres relay team, winning a silver medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics, golds at the 1986 Commonwealth Games and 1986 European Athletics Championships, and another silver at the 1987 World Championships in Athletics. He progressed individually in 400 metres hurdles from the late 1980s onwards, taking bronze at the 1989 IAAF World Cup. His time of 47.93 seconds to win the 1990 European Athletics Championships was a British record, and he also won gold at the 1990 Commonwealth Games. He reached the peak of his career over the next two years, winning a hurdles bronze medal at the 1991 World Championships and anchoring the British team to a narrow victory over the American team in 2:57.53 minutes – a British record for the 4×400 m relay. He followed this with a British 400 m hurdles record of 47.82 seconds to take the bronze medal at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, where he also won bronze with the 4×400 m relay team. Since retiring from athletics, he has worked as a television presenter and motivational speaker. ==Early life== Born in Paddington to Nigerian parents who were studying in London, Akabusi would later be brought up in care with his brother Riba, after their parents returned to their country when he was four.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Athlete Kriss Akabusi: Help teenagers leaving care )〕 Their uncle, who had been appointed as their guardian, neglected his duty, leaving the boys to be raised by abusive foster parents.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=No foster child should suffer the abuse I did )〕 Due to the outbreak of the Nigerian Civil War in 1967, Akabusi was unable to stay in contact with his parents, although he would later be reunited with his mother in his teens. She was determined that her son should settle in Nigeria, but while Akabusi was keen to make up for lost time with the rest of his family, he remained in the United Kingdom, eventually visiting his homeland when he was twenty-one. It was during this time that Akabusi, who is of Igbo heritage,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Meet Kriss Akabusi Footdown Member )〕 changed his first name from 'Kezie' to 'Kriss'.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Kriss Akabusi: overcoming his own hurdles - British Heart Foundation )〕 He told an interviewer in 2002: "I decided to make a new start and part of that new start was to have a new name. I spelt my name with a 'K' because I didn't want to change my initials and I want to have some connections with my past. Kezie Akabusi was the connection to my past, but Kriss Akabusi is a connection with my future."〔 Akabusi, did however keep the middle name given to him at birth by his parents, Clive. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kriss Akabusi」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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