Africa long jump (7.17m) champion, Ese Brume has been listed among athletes to watch in the women’s long jump event at Paris Olympics athletic event on Tuesday, August 6, 2024 at Saint-Dennis, France.
Brume was a bronze medal winner on her second visit to the Games three years ago after placing fifth on her debut five years earlier in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.
The African record holder may not have been considered for the title, World Athletics, in its preview of the event acknowledges the Nigerian is still one to watch.
In a season in which only two athletes, defending champion, Malaika Mihambo (7.22) and reigning world indoor champion, Tara Davis-Woodhall (7.18m) has hit at least the 7m mark, and are considered as favorites for the gold medal, Brume, with a 6.84m personal season’s best, will be hoping she can come to form on the day to leap into history as the first Nigerian to win two individual medals at the Olympics.
Brume has proved she has the big occasion temperament and her coach, Kayode Yahaya, will drum it into her ears she can resume what has become normal service for the Nigerian who has never failed to make the podium of a global and continental championships and games since 2019 until the break at the World Athletics Championships last year in Budapest, Hungary.
The two other Nigerians in the event, Ruth Usoro, the World indoor finalist in 2022, and Prestina Ochonorgor were not given a mention albeit the former holds a 6.87m personal season’s and lifetime best and tops the Nigerian list, so far, in 2024