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Kriss Kezie Uche Chukwu Duru Akabusi MBE (born 28 November 1958 in London, England) is a former athlete who went on to become a television presenter and motivational speaker.

Akabusi joined the British Army in 1975 and had a successful career in the Royal Corps of Signals before switching to the Army Physical Training Corps in 1981. When he was discharged into the reserves at the end of his army career he held the rank of Warrant Officer Class 2.

It was in 1983 that Akabusi embarked upon his athletics career as a member of the 4x400M relay team, and in his successful time as an athlete he won three medals at the Summer Olympics and three World Championship medals, amongst others. In 1990 he broke David Hemery's longstanding British record on his way to a Gold medal at the European Championships.

Akabusi has presented the television shows Record Breakers, Gladiators and The Big Breakfast, and has regularly appeared as a panelist on many quiz shows such as A Question of Sport, They Think It's All Over and Through the Keyhole.It is on these shows that Kriss regularly chortles in a manic fashion and whips out his catchphrase 'Alright! Pump it up!' and not 'Awooga!' (a popular mistake) which was John Fashanu's (of Gladiators fame).

In 1992, along with fellow relay team member Roger Black, Akabusi was awarded an Honorary degree from the University of Southampton.

Also that year he was awarded the MBE by Queen Elizabeth II in recognition of his services to the country through athletics.

He is currently the Chief executive officer of The Akabusi Company blank">http://www.akabusi.com/index.asp specialising in giving corporate motivational speeches, some of his attendees being FTSE100 companies.

Arguably Akabusi's most famous moment came during the 1991 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo. Kriss, a 400m hurdles specialist, was running anchor leg for the Great Britain team in the 4x400m relay final. He picked up the baton in second place, some 1-2 metres down on the newly crowned World Champion, USA's _Antonio Pettigrew. Matching Pettigrew for pace for most of the lap, Kriss moved up onto his shoulder on the final bend and just edged him out in the sprint for the line to take an unlikely Gold medal for GB.

Akabusi is also a notable supporter of West Ham United. He has been adopted as an unofficial mascot by the supporters of Stenhousemuir F.C..