Tough hurdles for Nigerian athletes ahead Paris 2024 Olympics

Nigeria’s Ese Brume reacts after learning she has set a new Commonwealth record after the women’s long jump final athletics event at the Alexander Stadium, in Birmingham on day ten of the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, central England, on August 7, 2022. (Photo by Ben Stansall / AFP)

Nigerian athletes who wish to get on board the train to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games are required to do a little more than have been asked of them by World Athletics for the trip to the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary in August following the release of the entry standard for the Quadrennial Games.

According to www.sportsnow.com, the qualification system will be based on a dual pathway, with 50 percent of athletes qualifying through entry standards and the remaining 50 percent through World Rankings. While in some events like the men’s 100m (10.00), 200m (20.16), and 400m (45.00), the athletes have been given the same hurdle they will have to scale to get to Budapest next August.

For the 100m, the likes of Favour Ofili, Grace Nwokocha, Rosemary Chukwuma and Tima Godbless have been asked to run at least a hundreth of a second faster (11.07) than the 11.08 hurdle they will need to scale to enter Budapest in August.

In the 200m, Ofili should have little difficulty running inside the 22.60 mark she has already scaled to book her ticket to the Worlds in Budapest. The Paris 2024 Games’ standard is 22.57.

In the 400m, Patience Okon-George will have to turn back the hand of the clock to 2015 to run inside 51 seconds again if she is desirous of making it to Paris while Imaobong Nse Uko must join the 50 seconds runners club to make the trip to Paris.

Tobi Amusan and Ese Brume should have little difficulty running 12.77 or leaping