Nigeria’s seek for qualification for the relay occasions of the 2024 Olympic Video games in Paris will probably be with out the nation’s quickest man thus far this yr, Favour Ashe, when the 4x100m quartet file out on the World Athletics Relay in Nassau, Bahamas subsequent month.
The 21-year-old was disregarded of Nigeria’s 29-man checklist launched by the World Athletics on Tuesday.
The Auburn College undergraduate has been in nice type this outside season and has damaged 10 seconds twice (9.96 and 9.99).
No purpose has been given by the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) for the omission of Favour Ashe.
Listed within the males’s 4x100m squad embrace; Usheoritse Itsekiri, Godson Oghenebrume, Udodi Onwuzurike, Alaba Akintola, Karlingthon Anunagba, Think about Ekanem, Seye Ogunlewe and Israel Okon Sunday.
The workforce will try to be among the many greatest 14 finishers to safe a lane in Paris for the primary time since 2008 when the quartet of Onyeabor Ngwogu, Obinna Metu, Chinedu Oriala and Uchenna Emedolu didn’t end within the first warmth of the occasion on the Fowl’s Nest in Beijing, China.
For the boys’s 4x400m, African Video games 400m champion, Chidi Okezie headlines the checklist of eight quarter-milers listed to return Nigeria to the Video games since 2004 when Godday James led the workforce to a bronze medal end in Athens, Greece.
Others listed embrace; Sikiru Adeyemi, Dubem Amene, Ezekiel Nathaniel and his brother, Samson Nathniel, Dubem Nwanchukwu, Samuel Ogazi who has been enhancing since his swap to College of Alabama and holds the Nigerian U18 document and Ifeanyi Ojeli.
For the ladies’s 4x100m, dash hurdler, Tobi Amusan and Favour Ofili, Nigeria’s 200m document holder (indoors and out) will lead the workforce that can even embrace; Rosemary Chukwuma, Justina Eyakpobeyan, Tima Godbless, Elo Blessing and African Video games double dash medalist, Olayinka Olajide.
The workforce is tasked with qualifying Nigeria for the Video games and a spot within the last, eight years after the quartet of Gloria Asumnu, Blessing Okagbare, Jennifer Madu and Agnes Osazuwa final did in Brazil.
For the 4x400m, African Video games hero, Omolara Ogunmakinju who literarily ensured Nigeria received the 4x400m combined relay gold in Accra, Ghana final month topped the checklist of quartermilers listed by the AFN.
Ogunmakinju who’s the fourth Nigerian lady to interrupt 52 seconds (51.90) over the 400m flat this yr will probably be joined by the three different girls who’ve ran sub-52 seconds within the occasion. They embrace Ella Onojuvwevwo who set a 51.32 lifetime greatest 10 days in the past, African Video games silver medalist, Elo Joseph who ran inside 52 seconds thrice in Accra culminating in her setting a 51.61 private greatest and Endurance Okon George who ran 51.97 on the African Video games trials in Asaba in February.
Ogunmakinju, at 30, may have the ardous job, because it had been, of securing Nigeria’s first look within the occasion on the Video games since 2012 when she led the quartet of herself, Muizat Ajoke Odumosu, Regina George and Bukola Abogunloko to run within the last of the occasion in London albeit they had been later disqualified for lane violation after initially ending in seventh place.
In response to World Athletics,the World relays will function the principle Olympic qualifying occasion for the relays with the primary 14 positioned nations robotically qualifying for the relay occasions on the Video games