Nigeria’s quartet of Samuel Ogazi, Ella Onojuvwevwo, Chidi Okezie, and Esther Elo Joseph competing in the mixed 4x400m event of the ongoing World Relays in the Bahamas have qualified for the Paris Olympics holding later this year. The time ran a time of 3:13.79 in Heat 2 to finish second behind the United States of America to book one of …

Team Nigerian will begin their quest for tickets to all five relay events of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in other countries at the World Athletics Relays, which begins on Saturday (today) in Nassau, Bahamas. The two-day global event will see 893 athletes from 54 countries vie for slots at the centenary games on Saturday and Sunday, as confirmed by …

Nigerian Olympic gold medallists, Chioma Ajunwa and Enefiok Udo-Obong believe the World Athletics has taken a brilliant step and are on the right path after the body announced prize money to gold medalists at the world’s biggest sports event later this year. The duo, both retired sprinters also said the move would further enhance competition in athletics events in Paris …

Three-time African Games champion and world record holder in women’s 100m hurdles, Tobi Amusan, will begin her Wanda Diamond League season in Xiamen on 20 April. Amusan has been listed among 12 Olympic gold medallists and 27 world champions who will light up the spectacular Egret Stadium in Xiamen. The 26-year-old will face three reigning global champions in the sprint …

Femke Bol of the Netherlands shattered her own world record to win world indoor 400m gold in Glasgow on Saturday. Bol, the two-time world 400m hurdles champion, clocked 49.17 seconds to beat her previous best, set last month, by 0.07sec. “It’s a dream come true”, said Bol, who led from gun to tape in an exceptional display of running. Her …

World record hurdler, Tobi Amusan, will miss this weekend’s World Indoor Championships in Glasgow, Scotland after she was excluded from Nigeria’s final entry. It was learnt that Amusan passed on the opportunity to feature at the championship to intensify her preparation for the forthcoming African Games in Ghana, which holds from 8 to 23 March. “Amusan is a professional athlete …

Nigerian sprinter, Tobi Amusan has set an African women’s indoor record in the 60 meters, clocking 7.75 seconds at the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix in Boston, United States. This performance in Boston replaces the previous record of 7.77 seconds set in Kazakhstan at the Astana Indoor Meet in January. However, despite setting the new record, Amusan came second behind …

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has set 19 January 2024, as the date for hearing the appeal filed by World Athletics via the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) and the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), challenging the first instance decision of the disciplinary tribunal in World Athletics Vs Nigeria and World Record holder in the 100m hurdles, Tobi Amusan. Earlier, …

Kenya’s Beatrice Chebet smashed the women’s world 5km record in Barcelona on Sunday. The 23-year-old’s time of 14min 13sec improved on the previous women-only world record of 14:29 set by Ethiopia’s Senbere Teferi in September 2021. Her performance, according to the AFP report on Sunday, also bettered the women’s world record set in a mixed race of 14:19, achieved by …

Nigerian sprinter, Grace Nwokocha, has been banned for doping for three years, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) announced on Friday. Nwokocha, who won gold in the 4x100m relay at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, tested positive for Ostarine and Ligandrol, two anabolic agents in a sample collected on 3 August 2022. The AIU said that Nwokocha has admitted to the doping …