World Athletics Championships: Staff Nigeria Seize Males’s 4x100m Ticket

Staff Nigeria’s males’s 4x100m relay workforce are via to the World Athletics Championships in Oregon final month after operating a powerful 38.4 private season’s greatest on the Nigerian Athletics Championships holding in Benin Metropolis, Edo State.

The quartet of Favour Ashe, Godson Brume, Alaba Akintola and reigning World U20 champion, Udodi Onwuzurike have now moved one step up from seventeenth to sixteenth, the ultimate qualifying place for the relays.

Nigeria has now moved above South Africa who have been occupying that place earlier than the race in Benin with the 38.51 seconds her U20 workforce ran on the World U20 Athletics Championships in Nairobi, Kenya in August final yr.

Nigerians will now be hoping the workforce shouldn’t be overtaking earlier than the shut of the qualification window on Sunday June 26,2022.

Staff Nigeria may even be hoping they return to the rostrum on the World Athletics Championships 25 years after the quartet of Osmond Ezinwa, Olapade Adeniken, Francis Obikwelu and Davidson Ezinwa ran 37.94s within the semifinals earlier than storming to a silver medal end (38.04) behind the Donovan Bailey encourage Canada who ran a world main 37.86 to win the gold medal.