World report holder within the 100m hurdles, Tobi Amusan, has been named within the Staff Nigeria relay squad for the continued thirteenth African Video games in Ghana.
Within the last checklist of athletes launched by the AFN yesterday, Amusan is anticipated to compete in 4 occasions on the Video games.
Along with her regular 100m hurdles, she is listed within the 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay. Amusan will try and turn out to be the second Nigerian lady to efficiently defend an African Video games title twice, after Vivian Chukwuemeka, who gained the Shot Put title 3 times at Johannesburg '99 in South Africa, the 2003 COJA Video games in Nigeria and 2007 in Nigeria. Algeria.
Amusan gained her first excessive hurdles title on the African Video games on her debut in 2015 and efficiently defended it in 2019, setting a brand new Video games report of 12.68 seconds.
She’s going to now search for a 3rd straight title within the occasion to attain what no lady has ever accomplished within the occasion and what just one Nigerian lady has achieved in athletics within the historical past of the Video games.
Different feminine athletes within the 100m/200m/4x100m embody Blessing Ogundiran, Justina Eyakpobeyan, Abinusawa Moforehan and Onyebuchi Chisom.
Amusan is subsequent to Religion Osamuyi and Stella Ayanleke within the 100 meters hurdles.
Ese Brume, Ruth Usoro and world lengthy leap silver medalist Pristina Ochonogor will compete within the lengthy leap. The lads's 100m/200m/4x100m crew consists of Contemplate Ekanem, Itshekiri Usheoritse, Okon Israel, Seye Ogunlewe, Alaba Akintola, Adegoke Enoch and Adekalu Fakorede.
The athletics occasion begins on March 18.
