Heartbreak continued for Nigeria at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris on Thursday as Ese Brume, Ruth Usoro, and Prestina Ochonogor missed out on the podium in the women’s long jump event. Brume, who won bronze at Tokyo 2020, leapt 6.70m to finish 5th in the final, while Ruth Usoro and Ochonogor were 10th and 12th with jumps of 6.58m …

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 long-jumper, Ese Brume has recovered instantly from the setback of the women’s long jump final at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest as she claimed a bronze medal at the Xiamen Diamond League in China. The 27-year-old who won bronze in the 2019 edition of the World Athletics Championships in Doha, Qatar, and earned a silver medal in …

Nigeria’s long jumper, Ese Brume recorded a season’s best of 6.84m but it was not enough to get her to the podium as she finished fourth in the women’s long jump of the ongoing World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary. Serbia’s Ivana Vuleta won the event with a world lead jump of 7.14m followed by United States Tara Davis-Woodhall in …

Ese Brume is poised to make history at the ongoing World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary later on Sunday (today) after she leaped a distance of 6.72m to secure a spot in the final of the long jump event on Saturday. It’s her third straight final in the competition history. The 27-year-old placed fourth in Group A of the qualification …

Nigeria’s long jump star, Ese Brume, has won the long jump event at the Botswana Golden Grand Prix with a world-leading distance of 6.77m She began her outdoor games to win the women’s long jump event at the event. Brume defeated Burkina Faso’s Marthe Koala, who had led until that moment with 6.69m in the third round. The victory record …

Reigning world 100 metres hurdles champion and record holder, Tobi Amusan tops the list of six Nigerian track and field athletes who made the top 20 ranking in their respective events following the last update for the outgoing year by World Athletics. Amusan was ranked the best sprint hurdler in 2022 following her incredible performances in the outgoing year highlighted …

Team Nigeria’s highest gold medal haul in the Games The 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham ends today with Nigeria not in the finals of any of the six events, which include Table Tennis, Hockey, Badminton and Squash. But the team – particularly the women – have already hauled 12 gold medals, the highest in Nigeria’s 15th appearance at the Games. …

… first Nigerian gold medalist Twice on Sunday night (early hours in Nigeria), Nigerian athlete, Tobi Amusan set a world record, and won the 100 metres hurdles in style at the World Athletics Championships in Oregon, United States. Amusan’s heroic and Ese Brume’s silver winning leap in the Women’s long jump gave Team Nigeria something to finally cheer as the …