Nigeria’s poor run on the world stage continues in Peru

30.08.2024 - 03:32 guardian.ng

As it was at the Paris 2024 Olympics, where Nigeria failed to win any medal, the situation at the ongoing World U20 Championships in Lima, Peru, points at similar fate after long jumper, Pristina Ochonogor failed to win a medal on Wednesday night.The 18-year-old Ochonogor jumped 6.21m in the fifth round in Wednesday’s final, but that was not enough as she finished fifth.

Australia’s Delta Amidzovski leaped a distance of 6.58m in the fifth round to win the gold with USA’s Sophia Beckmon second with her 6.54m fifth-round effort while Poland’s Julia Adamczyk also relied on her fifth-round jump (6.34m) to win the bronze.The story was even worse for Team Nigeria in the women’s 100m final, where Justina Eyakpobeyan also failed to fulfill expectations as she came in seventh (11.63).

Eyakpobeya told The Guardian shortly after her disappointing race that she was hurt about 10 minutes before the race. The women’s 100m final was won by Jamaica’s Alana Reid (11.17) with British Virgin Islands Adaejah Hodge second (11.27) and Kishawna Niles of Barbados third (11.37).

As of yesterday, Nigeria’s hopes of winning her 15th gold medal at the World Athletics U20 Championships was on the shoulder of Ella Onojuvwevwo, who raced into the final of the women’s 400m.Onojuvwewvo, who was also at the Paris Olympics, fulfilled expectations by picking one of the two automatic tickets on offer for the final in a semifinal heat that looked like a dress rehearsal for the final with all three pre-Championships favourites in action.

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