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Ese Brume qualifies for World Championships, 2020 Olympic Games

Nigeria’s Ese Brume finally joined the league of athletes that will compete at the 2019 World Championships in Qatar as well as the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games in Japan after the former Commonwealth champion jumped 6-96metres to win at the 2019 Erzurum Challenge Cup in Turkey.

2020 Olympic Games

Brume started with 6.58m in her first attempt, she, however, improved to 6.84m while it was her fifth jump of 6.96m that aided her victory in the long jump event, ahead of Turkey’s Ecem Calagan who jumped 6.27m.

Confirming this to Sportinglife.ng, Technical Director of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN),
Sunday Adeleye said the federation was excited with the performance of Brume who has continued to improve this year.

“Ese Brume has been showing her class this year in all the competition she had featured in and we are confident that she would come through. We are happy and excited that she finally made the qualification to 2019 All African Games, 2019 World Championships and the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games in Japan. We will be
hoping for more athletes to qualify for these major tournaments,” Adeleye said.

Brume now joined the likes of Blessing Okagbare-Ighotegunor, Divine Oduduru, Raymond Ekevwo, Ese Brume, Chukwuebuka Enekwechi and Oluwatobiloba Amusan who have all booked their places at the 202
Tokyo Olympic Games.

Amusan ran a100m hurdles Season Best of 12.73 seconds on May 3. The qualification standard in the event is
12.84 seconds. The qualification window for Tokyo 2020 opened on May 1.

Divine Oduduru, and shot putter, US-based Chukwuebuka Enekwachi had also booked their tickets.

Oduduru broke records in 100m, 200m races recently in the US, where he ran the world’s fastest time for this year at the 2019 Michael Johnson Invitational in Waco, Texas.

He recorded 9.95 seconds in the 100m, the world’s fastest time for this year before running 19.76 seconds in his
first 200m of the 2019 season, the second-fastest time ever run by a collegiate athlete.

Read Also: Ese Brume out of 2018 Commonwealth Games

Okagbare-Ighotegunor clocked a Season Best 11.07s (+0.2m/s) to finish in the second position in the women’s 100m event at the Shanghai Diamond League in May to qualify for the 2019 World Championships scheduled for Doha and the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games following a brilliant finish in Doha.

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