Enoch Adegoke, the Tokyo Olympic Video games 100m finalist, has topped the listing of elite athletes registered for the 2024 Dynamic Athletics Outside Meet, which can maintain on January 27 on the Nigerian Navy Sports activities Complicated, Ojo, Lagos .
Adegoke made historical past in 2021 as the primary Nigerian man in 25 years to run the ultimate of the 100 meters occasion on the Olympic Video games, after Davidson Ezinwa in 1996.
The 22-year-old will look to repeat the rollercoaster trip he skilled in 2021, when he turned the primary absolutely home-based male athlete in current historical past to qualify for the Olympics within the dash occasion.
Adegoke began his fairytale run of 2021 with a world-leading run of 10.16 seconds (on the time) achieved on the AFN All-Comers assembly in Akure in late January.
That set the tone for his unimaginable run, which took him gold within the 100 meters on the Nationwide Sports activities Pageant in Edo State and the Nigerian Championship title in Lagos, with a then second quickest successful time of 10.00 seconds, after Deji Aliu, which ran 9.98 seconds. victory in 2003.
The 2019 African U-20 100m champion hopes to start out his 2024 season in related vogue and the Dynamic Athletics Outside Meet provides him the platform to just do that.
Additionally confirmed for the competitors is one other Olympian, Ifeanyi Ojeli and African Video games relay medalist, Sikiru Adeyemi.
Blessing Ogundiran, the reigning Nigerian 100m queen, has additionally registered for the primary athletics competitors in Nigeria in 2024 sanctioned by World Athletics.
Additionally on the Nigerian Navy Sports activities Complicated will likely be veteran quarter miler Persistence Okon George who will likely be making an attempt to make her third look on the Olympic Video games.
In the meantime, the competitors has acquired the help of numerous former worldwide gamers, famend coaches and sports activities directors.
Nigerian 100m document holder, Olusoji Fasuba, lengthy bounce document holder, Yusuf Ali, and veteran coach, Tony Osheku, are amongst those that supported the competitors.
Others embrace Athletics Federation of Nigeria Efficiency Director Victor Okorie and 2010 Commonwealth Video games 100 finalist Peter Emelieze.
