Nigeria Make History as Brume, Usoro, Ochonogor Qualify for Women’s Long Jump Final

Three Nigerian women have, for the first time ever qualified to compete in the final of Women’s Long Jump at The Olympics. On Tuesday, the Nigerian athletes gave impressive performances and booked their spots in the final. With Ese Brume dropping to 9th place, her leap of 6.76 meters was enough as she qualified for the final round.

Ruth Usoro leaped to a best of 6.68m while Prestina Ochonogor did also well, landing three jumps over the 5 meters mark with her farthest being- 6.65 to give Nigeria its first-ever team in this category at each Olympics Game run under World Athletics Norms – pensport( dot)com (@mediapenspotop1) July 31, Against them in the finals on Thursday, August 10 are competitors from Germany, the USA, France and Italy as well Romania. Ese Brume is one of Nigeria’s medals hopefuls in the Olympics, having remained among the best three long jumpers in five years going to Toyko.

After the successful long jump, Favour Ofili also inched towards her Olympic dream. She completely obliterates the field in a women’s 200m semi-final, running that beautiful truck through and across it to win by maybe three or four metres, craning her head forward as she knows exactly what is coming. And yes she delivered an imperious performance here too. She has qualified easily enough for the final with times of 22.05 seconds place – second behind Blessing Okagbare who ran without breaking sweat yet still qualifies fastest.

This historical feat of Brume, Usoro and Ochonogor as well as the progression of Ofili underlines Nigeria’s dominance in certain track and field events at the Olympics. The finals await the nation and fans would be hoping for more magic to work, thereby give medal in return.