Because the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games enters day seven as we speak, Crew Nigeria made up of 36 athletes will likely be aiming to haul medals in monitor and area occasions which can start as we speak in Paris, France.
The athletics occasions will start with the Males’s and Girls’s 20km Race Stroll as we speak, August 1, with a full schedule of occasions commencing on Friday, August 2, together with the decathlon 100m, hammer throw qualification, ladies’s excessive soar qualification, and girls’s 100m preliminary rounds, amongst different occasions.
Regardless of the brouhaha over the omission of Favour Ofili’s title from the checklist of rivals for the ladies’s 100m occasion, unquestionably, athletics stays Crew Nigeria’s space of energy because the nation boasts of world performers who’re aiming for podium end on the Paris Video games.
Main the Crew Nigeria medal cost is the ladies’s 100 hurdle world document holder, Tobiloba Amusan. Her distinctive type makes her a robust contender for gold and a possible successor to Chioma Ajunwa as Nigeria’s Olympic gold medalist.
Lengthy jumper Ese Brume is one other athlete to look at because the Commonwealth champion and African document holder goals to emulate the feat of Chioma Ajunwa by securing gold in her occasion. She at the moment holds the commonwealth video games document, African junior document and African document within the occasion. Brume gained the bronze medal within the Lengthy Leap occasion on the 2019 World Athletics Championships in Doha, with a soar of 6.91 m and on the 2020 Summer time Olympics in Tokyo, with a soar of 6.97m, and she or he will likely be aiming to make it gold in Paris.
Shot putter Chukwuebuka Enekwechi, the African champion, is a robust medal prospect for Nigeria, whereas the younger and proficient Favour Ashe has proven immense promise with a current private better of 9.94s within the 100m.
Additionally, Favour Ofili, however her exclusion from the 100 race, she stays medal within the 200 race. She grew to become the second-fastest indoor 200m runner in collegiate historical past (after Steiner) in February 2023, setting even higher African indoor document of twenty-two.36 s on the Tyson Invitational in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
Becoming a member of them are different immensely proficient athletes together with Tima Godbless, Rosemary Chukwuma, Ella Onojuvwevwo, Esther Joseph and Godson Oghenebrume, forming a formidable lineup that guarantees to dazzle spectators and rivals alike for podium in Paris.