World Athletics: Why Ese Brume is not featured on World Ranking List

World Athletics, the governing body for the sport of track and field has explained why Nigeria’s World indoor, outdoor and Olympic medalist, Ese Brume’s name is conspicuously missing from its weekly World Ranking List.

Brume, finalist at the Paris Olympics in August last year, has been Nigeria’s top ranked long jumper since 2019 when World Athletics started ranking athletes.

Sportsnow.com.ng’s checks on the website of World Athletics revealed that Brume, who ended 2024 as the top ranked Nigerian long jumper, ‘lost’ her top ranking to Prestina Ochonogor when the update for March 25, 2025, was effected.

Since then, Brume has not featured in the ranking list with Ochonogor now the official top ranked Nigerian women long jumper with 1221 points.

World Athletics has now revealed why Brume, who missed the indoor season due to a freak car accident early this year, has featured in the radar of those compiling the performances that are used to rank athletes.

‘The reason why she (Ese Brume) is not currently listed is that she only has 4 performances in the last one-year period, while the criteria is to have at least 5.

‘As soon as she collects one more (before 8 June) she will be back in the Rankings,’ wrote a certain András Szabo, a Partner Statistician with World Athletics to an enquiry from Sportsnow.com.ng.

Article 2.8.1 of the World Athletics Ranking Rules says: Only those Performance Scores are considered, which were obtained by the athlete in a 12 months period prior to the date of the Rankings.’

Brume may miss out of a whole year ranking if she fails to compete in a recognized competition on or before June 8.