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🇳🇬 Nigerian athletes who have these marks since 2024
Tobi Amusan -100mH
Rosemary Chukwuma -100m
Tima Godbless -100m
Ella Onojuvwevwo -400m
Temitope Adeshina -HJ
Kayinsola Ajayi -100m
Favour Ashe -100m
Israel Okon -100
Samuel Ogazi -400m
Ezekiel Nathaniel -400mH
Chuk Enekwechi -SP
The proposed qualification standards for the LA28 Olympic Games are here!
The entry standards outline the qualifying performance benchmarks across all Athletics disciplines, from the 100m sprints to the Marathon.
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Team Nigeria 🇳🇬 Entries for 2026 Youth Olympics
⚪️ Rosemary Nwankwo
⚪️ Praise Ugoh
⚪️ Faith Ezechukwu
⚪️ Chisom Ezeh
🟢 Bright Gift
🟢 Godswill Nkemakolam -Jumps
🟢 Gowon Oghenerunor -Jumps
🟢 Obanla Ehuwa -Jumps
They added back to a later heat and she won with a light 11.71-second run. She will advance to one of the final rounds of the Women’s 100m
A major personal best in the Women’s 100m heats at the Athletic Heat meet. Lydia Ajayi Bibilomo 🇳🇬 ran 11.29 seconds for the win improving from her previous best of 11.53 seconds
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🇳🇬 Iyanuoluwa Aderemi ran 51.29 seconds to win the Women’s 400m at the Athletic Heat Meet in Lagos
🇳🇬 Joy Ayomide Joseph was the next fastest running a personal best of 52.63 seconds, followed by 🇳🇬 Oluchi Ezeh with a personal best of 52.93 seconds
Notable Entries for Athletic Heat Meet at Yabatech on Saturday
▪️ Oluebebe Ezechukwu - 100m
▪️ Chioma Nweke - 100m
▪️ Lucy Nwankwo - 100m
▪️ Janet Saunday - 100m/100mH
▪️ Iyanuoluwa Aderemi - 400m
▪️ Gafar Badmus - 400m
▪️ Ezekiel Asuquo - 400m
▪️ Tejiri Godwin - 100m
Athletic Heat meet on Saturday. Youth Olympics Sunday through Tuesday.
Finally have some T&F action. Track is (kinda) back
Tejiri Ugoh won the Girls 200m at the African Youth Games last year. No medals were won in throwing events yet they assigned Javelin and Shotput to Nigeria for the YOG. This is shameful Ugoh had to be placed in that event. It is ridiculous and giving sabotage to be honest
Gift Oghenerunor did win the Silver medal in the 400m hurdles at the African Youth Games last year despite being primarily a jumper/short sprinter
Quite unfortunate that some athletes may have their dreams of competing at the Youth Olympic Games cut short, despite being officially entered for the competition.
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Alaba went from a 10.2 guy to running consistent 10.0s in his 2 seasons at Middle Tennessee
🇬🇭 Mustapha Bopkin went from a 10.2 guy in the NAIA to running multiple sub-10s in his first year at Middle Tennessee last season
I think this is a solid choice by Godwin
17-year old Nigerian-born/Japanese-based 🇳🇬 Haru Balogun ran a personal best 37.17 seconds to win the U18 Girls 300m final at the Aomori Japan Games. This is the 3rd fastest time ever ran by a Nigerian-born U20 athlete
She also ran a wind-aided 23.16s in the 200m this season
女子300mバログン・ハルが高校最高の37秒17で2連覇 高校最後のレースで「良い締め」卒業後は海外の大学志望／#あおもり国スポ
「タイムは37秒5ぐらいを考えていたので、（37秒）1（台）まで行くとは思わなかったです」と驚いていた
#バログン・ハル
｜月陸Online
rikujyokyogi.co.jp/archives/…
Coach Lacena Golding-Clarke has also found a new home at Middle Tennessee State, she joins the coaching staff this year after serving as an Assistant Coach at Auburn for the last 4 years
What the Women’s 4x100 could look like at Worlds in Beijing next year
1st Leg: Godbless / Ogundiran
2nd Leg: Olajide / Chukwuka
3rd Leg: Chukwuma / Chigozie
4th Leg: Ezechukwu
For the second consecutive year, only two women have run the 100m in under 11 seconds in a season, and four different women have done it across the two years.
A recap of Nigeria’s top 10 list in 2026.
#ngrtf #worldathletics
As the 2026 season wraps up, 3 Nigerian 🇳🇬 athletes have the auto qualifying standard for the 2027 World Champs (not counting Ofili)
Tobi Amusan [100mH]
Kayinsola Ajayi [100m]
Ezekiel Nathaniel [400mH]
Relays Automatically Qualified:
Women’s 4x100m
Mixed 4x100m
Mixed 4x400m
Today marks the beginning of the qualification period for the 2027 World Championships. According to World Athletics, “for entry standards all performances must be achieved in a competition in World Ranking Category C and above”
The qualifying window closes on August 22, 2027
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🇳🇬 Pro T&F Action This Weekend
Athlos London 🇬🇧 9/18
▪️ Tobi Amusan - 100mH
Décastar 🇫🇷 9/18-19
▪️ Jami Schlueter - Decathlon
I would like to see her run more 60mH races in the future. Most Jamaican coaches don’t think indoor races are worth anything for outdoor but maybe that could help clean up those first few hurdles
Tobi Amusan 🇳🇬 need to give more attention to the 100m next year. What she might need now is to get faster at the 100m to challenge Russell in the 100mh.
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🇳🇬 Tobi Amusan finished in 2nd place in the Women’s 100mH final at the World Ultimate Championships
She ran 12.34 seconds (+0.1m/s) to cross the line behind 🇺🇸 Masai Russell who ran 12.22 seconds
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🇳🇬 Ella Onojuvwevwo ran 50.50 seconds in her Women’s 400m semifinal heat at the World Athletics Ultimate Championships. She finished in 6th place and will not advance to the final
Paulino 🇩🇴- 49.58s Q
Naser 🇧🇭 - 49.67s Q
Pryce 🇯🇲 - 49.72s Q
Gomez 🇨🇺 - 50.34s Q
John 🇬🇧 - 50.38s
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Qualified in May
National Trials in June
Commonwealth and World U20s in ended over a month ago
There was plenty of time to get their stuff together. Did they just forget about it? What have the officials been doing all this time???
