Tobi Amusan will compete in Nigeria for the first time since breaking the 100mH World Record at the 2023 Nigeria Athletics Trials in Benin. Amusan was in Ostrava last Tuesday, Lausanne on Friday, Stockholm on Sunday, and now in Benin for the national trials. The Nigeria Athletics Trials holding at the Samuel Ogbemudia stadium, will …
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Brume, Amusan Tops AFN’s 24-Person List For World Championships
National Record (NR) holder in the women’s Long Jump, Ese Brume, and sprint hurdler Tobi Amusan, tops the 22 selected athletes by the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) for the World Championships in Eugene, USA. Brume Amusan Leading The Stellar Cast Brume, a Bronze medallist at the 2019 edition in Doha, will be aiming to …
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Will Paris 2024 Be The Second Tipping Point For Nigeria Athletics?
By Funmilayo Fameso In January 2022, the US National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) accepted the highest influx of Nigerian student-athletes, with over 50 of them signed with different colleges on scholarships. Most of these athletes made immediate impacts at the NCAA Eastern and Western Conferences prelims, where an astonishing 17 out of 26 competing Nigerian athletes …
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Sprint sensation, Favour Ofili, broke Blessing Okagbare’s 200m National Record
Sprint sensation, Favour Ofili, broke Blessing Okagbare’s 200m National Record at the Tom Jones Memorial in blistering 21.96s. The Louisiana State University star becomes the first Nigerian woman to break 22 seconds mark in women’s 200m. The world U20 silver medalist started with 60m indoors this season, despite specializing in 200m and 400m. Last week, …
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