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12 Nigerian Athletes Qualify For Tokyo 2020 Olympics

by Sports Intelligence

October 28, 2019

Kingsley Njoku 12 Nigerian athletes have qualified for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. This was contained in a statement issued by ...

Kingsley Njoku

12 Nigerian athletes have qualified for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. This was contained in a statement issued by the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN).

The athletes are Ese Brume, Nigeria’s sole medalist at the World Athletics Championship in Doha who won bronze medal in women’s long jump.

Others are : Divine Oduduru, Raymond Ekevwo, Usheoritse Itsekiri, Emmanuel Arowolo and EdoseIbadin. Also, Enekwechi Chukwuebuka, Ayomidotun Ogundeji, Blessing Okagabare-Ighoteguonor, Patience Okon George, Oluwatobiloa Amusan and Favour Ofili also qualified.

The press release which was signed by Amanzi Marcus the AFN media committee chairman also expressed the concern of the AFN President Ibrahim Shehu Gusau over the 31^st position in which Nigeria finished at the World Athletics Championship in Doha.

While the board commended Ese Brume for winning Nigeria’s sole medal at the championship, the AFN has also resolved to work harder for better results in future competitions. Since Nigeria is yet to win a gold at IAAF World Championship since inception of the game in Helsinki Finland in 1983.

The board also stressed on the need to organize more grassroots athletics programme as a way of replacing ageing athletes.This is because athletics has become a major source of medals for Nigeria at the Olympics.

It will also be recalled that Nigeria won her first Olympic Gold medal through athletics at the Atlanta 1996 Olympics, where Chioma Ajunwa made history in women’s long jump.

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