By Uzor Odigbo
AthIetics prodigy and 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games100m finalist, Enoch Adegoke has expressed delight in the recent achievement of Current world leader, Consider Ekanem in the 100m, saying his form will spur all AthIetes for better achievement at the Trials in Asaba.
Adegoke in a brief chat said the country is lucky to have such an athlete with a brillant form leading to a major Championships in a few weeks, the Africa Games in Ghana.
Interestingly, Emmanuel Ekanem Consider, the world leader in the 100m and old war horse quartermiler, Patience Okon George and others will also meet in the MoC/AFN National Trials to start on Friday at the Stephen Okechukwu Keshi stadium in Asaba, Delta state.
On why he has not hit form lately, Adegoke, the muscler trojan said, Injuries has never given him a breathing space since he returned from Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games two years back, he however expected that, all will be well for him in.Asaba.
Also entered for the event that will be used to select Nigeria’s track and field to next month African Games include Commonwealth Youth Games 100m silver medalist, Justina Tiana Eyakpobeyan, reigning Nigerian queen of the track, Blessing Ogundiran, African U20 silver
mdalist, Musibau Adebisi and Sikiru Adeyemi, the veretan 400m runner.
Expectedly, it’s believed the Trials will offer Ekanem, who ran a world leading 10.10 seconds last month at an Athletics Meeting in 2024 in Lagos, will also offer Adegoke, the 23 year old who shook the Nigerian athletics scene in 2021, leading to his winning the Nigerian Championships in a home-based
record setting 10.00 seconds before making history as the first Nigerian man to qualify for and run in the final of the 100m event at the Olympics 25 years.
Adegoke ran a personal 10.28 season’s best last month in Lagos and will be keen to improve on that.
For the women, Justina Tiana Eyakpobeyan will be keen to upstage her senior colleague, Ogundiran who ran 11.50 to win her first Nigerian Championship 100m
title
Eyakpobeyan ran 11.29 lifetime best to win a silver medal in the 100m event at the Commonwealth Youth Games last year and will be keen to not only make the
team to Ghana but also prove that the young has grown.
Veteran quartermiler Okon George is set to make her season’s debut after ending 2023 with 51.92, the third fastest time by a Nigerian over the distance last
year.
According to SportsnowNG, The Athletics Federation of Nigeria, (AFN) the owner of the competition is yet to come out with selection criteria for the African Games as many of the
athletes tipped to make the team are abroad, especially the United States of America.
in Accra.
