Rosey Edeh

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Rosey Edeh
Born
Rosaline Ugochukwu Edeh

(1966-08-16) August 16, 1966 (age 57)
EducationM.A. Art History
Alma materRice University
Occupation(s)Journalist
Director
Producer
Notable credit(s)CNN
Early Today
MSNBC
ET Canada
Global Toronto
The Morning Show
Familydaughter: Micha Powell[1]

Rosey Edeh (born August 16, 1966) is a Canadian television personality, who was a news anchor for Global News at Noon on Global Toronto and senior reporter for ET Canada. She is currently C.E.O. of Micha Muse Media and has directed her debut film Oliver Jones: Mind Hands Heart. She is currently a morning co-anchor for CTV Morning Live Ottawa.

Biography

Edeh was born in

CFCF in Montreal, before moving to the United States to work for CNN and most recently, a weathercaster on NBC's Early Today and MSNBC
.

Her running skills led to an athletic scholarship at

Lasalle, Quebec, she competed at the Olympic Games in 1988, 1992 and 1996.[3] She won a bronze medal at the 1990 Commonwealth Games
as a member of the 4 x 400 metre relay team, and was part of the gold medal-winning 4 x 400 metre relay team, at the 1992 World Cup of Track and Field.

In the 400-metre hurdles final at the 1996 Summer Olympics Edeh set a Canadian national record time that stood over 23 years, until broken by Sage Watson in 2019.[4]

In July 2016 her daughter Micha Powell was named to Canada's Olympic team as an alternate.[5]

In September 2020, Rosey became a co-anchor of the CTV Morning News Live Ottawa.

References

  1. ^ "Image Viewer".
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  4. ^ Harrison, Doug (2 October 2019). "Sage Watson shatters Canadian hurdles record en route to 400m world final: Clocks 54.32 seconds to beat Rosey Edeh's mark from 1996 Atlanta Olympics". CBC Sports. Retrieved 2 October 2019.
  5. ^ Hossain, Asif (11 July 2016). "Athletics Canada nominates largest squad to Team Canada for Rio". Canadian Olympic Committee. Retrieved 11 July 2016.

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