Team Nigeria Aims For Medal Glory As 2025 World Athletics Championships Begin In Tokyo

Nigeria is gearing up for a formidable situation astatine the 20th World Athletics Championships which commence connected Saturday successful Tokyo, Japan.

The country’s quest for medal occurrence volition beryllium spearheaded by discus thrower Obiageri Pamela Amaechi, who antecedently secured a bronze medal astatine the Commonwealth Games.

After returning without a medal from the past Championships successful Budapest, Hungary, successful 2023, Nigeria is determined to reclaim its presumption connected the podium.

The team, led by erstwhile World 100m hurdles champion Tobi Amusan and talented 400m hurdler Nathaniel Ezekiel, aims to unafraid astatine slightest 1 medal this year.

Amaechi, 26, volition motorboat Nigeria’s run arsenic she competes successful the qualifying rounds of the discus throw. She is drawn successful the archetypal of 2 qualifying groups and is expected to look reigning Commonwealth Games champion Chioma Onyekwere-Lyons.

Amaechi’s caller accomplishment of a idiosyncratic champion propulsion of 64.80m astatine ‘Throw Town’ successful Ramona, Oklahoma, has acceptable her hopes precocious for making past arsenic the archetypal Nigerian pistillate to suffice for the World Championships final.

In addition, Ezekiel, who precocious matched his African grounds of 22.10m astatine the Prefontaine Classic Diamond League meet, is aiming not conscionable for a last spot but to amended his eighth-place decorativeness from 2019.

Completing the roster of tract lawsuit competitors connected the opening time are Ese Brume and Prestina Ochonogor.

Ochonogor, the reigning African U20 champion and Paris Olympic finalist, volition question to travel successful the footsteps of Blessing Okagbare and Brume to go Nigeria’s 3rd agelong jumper to scope the podium.

In bid to unafraid a finals spot, Ochonogor volition request to surpass her season’s champion of 6.67m, aiming for her idiosyncratic champion of 6.79m to basal a accidental successful a competitory field.

Brume, competing successful her 4th consecutive World Championships, volition combat for a finals spot successful the 2nd qualifying group. She has consistently finished successful the apical ranks since 2017, with her sights acceptable connected replicating her 6.79m idiosyncratic best.

On the track, 3 Nigerian athletes volition marque their debut connected the archetypal day. While the men’s 100m heats commencement database is yet to beryllium confirmed, Rosemary Chukwuma has secured her spot successful lane 7 of the 2nd heat.

The 23-year-old faces stiff contention from athletes including Polish sprinter Ewa Swoboda and seasoned British prima Dina Asher-Smith, arsenic she aims for a 2nd consecutive semifinal appearance.

Key medal contenders, Tobi Amusan and Ezekiel Nathaniel volition participate the fray connected consequent days, with Amusan competing connected Day 2 and Nathaniel connected Day 3 of the nine-day event.

Nigeria’s run volition scope its decision connected Day 7, coinciding with the finals of the men’s 400m hurdles and 200m events.

As the excitement builds successful Tokyo, each eyes volition beryllium connected Nigeria’s athletes arsenic they strive to bring location much-needed medals and reconstruct nationalist pridefulness successful the satellite of athletics.