Because the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games enters day seven at the moment, Staff Nigeria made up of 36 athletes will probably be aiming to haul medals in observe and area occasions which is able to start at the moment in Paris, France.
The athletics occasions will start with the Males’s and Ladies’s 20km Race Stroll at the moment, August 1, with a full schedule of occasions commencing on Friday, August 2, together with the decathlon 100m, hammer throw qualification, ladies’s excessive leap qualification, and ladies’s 100m preliminary rounds, amongst different occasions.
Regardless of the brouhaha over the omission of Favour Ofili’s identify from the listing of rivals for the ladies’s 100m occasion, undoubtedly, athletics stays Staff 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 Staff Nigeria medal cost is the ladies’s 100 hurdle world document holder, Tobiloba Amusan. Her distinctive type makes her a powerful 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 observe 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 received the bronze medal within the Lengthy Bounce occasion on the 2019 World Athletics Championships in Doha, with a leap of 6.91 m and on the 2020 Summer time Olympics in Tokyo, with a leap of 6.97m, and she or he will probably be aiming to make it gold in Paris.
Shot putter Chukwuebuka Enekwechi, the African champion, is a powerful 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.