The African Record holder in the women’s Long Jump event, Nigeria’s Ese Brume, has qualified for the final stage of the event at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics after leaping to a distance of 6.76m, 1cm more than the required mark to seal her place among the contestants that would be competing for medals in the final on Tuesday.
Brume, who is Nigeria’s sole representative in the Long Jump in Tokyo since the disqualification of Ruth Usoro by the Athletics Integrity Unit, had the fourth overall best Jump among the finalists.
Having broken the long-standing 7.12m record of Chioma Ajunwa in the build up to the Olympic Games, Brume is seen as one of the country’s brightest medal prospects in Tokyo.
Apart from Ajunwa’s Gold in Atlanta, Blessing Okagbare is the only other Nigerian to have won a medal in the Olympic Long Jump event having won silver at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.
