Nigeria May Lose 4x100m World Championship Relay Spot to Liberia
Brume wins long leap gold at National Trials
US-based Nigerian long jumper Ese Brume yesterday held her situation as one of the nation's top stars to watch at the current year's World Championships in Athletics in Oregon, USA and at the Games in the Commonwealth in Birmingham, by winning the gold award at the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) National Trials in Benin.
Brume, who has succeeded no less than one award for Nigeria in each occasion he has taken part in since ascending to popularity in 2013, including the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, hopped 6.89 meters at Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium, Benin yesterday. , to guarantee in front of the pack. .
The Nigerian ladies' 4x100m hand-off group guaranteed a gold decoration in a global transfer occasion, returning 43.25 seconds to beat their partners from Ghana and the Republic of Benin simultaneously. It was his second success in two days at the public tests in Benin City.
Notwithstanding, the Nigerian 4x100m men neglected to satisfy hopes a lot to the mistake of fans as they ran 38.84 seconds in the occasion.
On Friday, the men's 4x100m hand-off group ran 38.34 seconds in the worldwide competition to rank sixteenth in the global rankings and in the process pushed South Africa to seventeenth spot.
In any case, not long before the previous race, news spilled out that Liberia had leaped to sixteenth on the planet surpassing Nigeria.
Fan assumptions were that the young men could run 37.51 seconds to get back to sixteenth spot and fit the bill for the hand-off occasion in Oregon. However, it finished more awful than his past exhibition on Friday. The passing window finished yesterday and it was muddled if South Africa could be capable
to press in.
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