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Christine Ohuruogu, Olympian and international athlete, obtained her BA in Linguistics in 2005. She has competed in four Olympic Games, winning three Olympic medals and is the World 400m Champion 2007 and 2013.
In her own words, Christine talks about her time at UCL:
"I came to UCL many years ago because ultimately out of all the universities I picked, UCL was the only London one and my father wanted me to stay in London.
I think coming to UCL was probably the best decision I could have made for my life at the time and for my life now. It was in coming here that I realised how much I loved my city and loved what London had to offer.
I really enjoyed my course and studying here. I really enjoyed being part of the UCL community and watching the different and many brilliant people that pass though the UCL doors and the people that are still coming out today. I’m really happy that I chose UCL.
UCL was the
only London university I picked on my UCAS form. All the other universities I
picked were a variety of English Literature and Language courses, which I
thought was what I wanted to do at the time, but I realised once I got to do my
linguistics degree that was exactly what I wanted to do without really knowing
what the name of the degree was – that was exactly me and right up my street.
The other degrees that I’d selected at the other universities - I don’t
think they would have been able to
match what I did at UCL.
I think UCL was where my passion for language was born. The degree I chose was the best one out of the six that I’d picked."
Image: Christine Ohuruogu (right) with Lori Houlihan, UCL Vice-Provost (Development) at the launch of the UCL Campaign in September 2016.
