Ajayi, Oghenebrume, Godbless to make 2025 indoor debut this weekend, Ashe not listed for University of Oregon
Reigning Nigeria 100m king, Kanyinsola Ajayi tops the list of a number of Nigerian athletes who will be making their 2025 indoor debut.
Ajayi made his indoor debut last season and ended his first ever Collegiate campaign with a 6.60 lifetime best in the 60m plus a SEC indoor championships title.
The Paris 2024 Olympics 100m semifinalist will be looking to go a step further this year by setting a new lifetime best and running all the way to the final of the NCAA outdoor championships where his only focus will be on making it to the podium.
Ajayi, who will be 21 in September will be looking wary of the threat that will be posed by his Nigerian counterparts, especially the duo of Caleb Joshua and Emmanuel Ekanem Consider who ran 6.57 lifetime best respectively last week.
The Auburn University student-athlete will run at the Samford Invitational in Birmingham, Alabama on Friday.
Also set to make his 2025 indoor debut are Godson Oghenebrume and Tima Godbless.
Oghenebrume will be running in the 60m event at the 2025 LSU Purple Tiger meet. He holds a 6.60 lifetime best in the event albeit he could only run 6.64 last year.
The 21-year-old will be competing for the first since he got injured in Nigeria’s training camp before the Paris 2024 Olympics and Nigerians will be watching to see him return to action once again.
Also set to run in the 60m event at the same event is Tima Godbless. The 20-year-old made his indoor debut last year and set 7.77 seconds best over the 60m distance.
With a number of Nigerians already flying in the event this year led by Magdaline George (7.27) and Faith Okwose (7.34), Godbless knows she has a real battle in her hand if she wants to make any podium appearance in the event this year at the NCAA circuit.
Meanwhile, Favour Ashe is not listed to run by his new school, University of Oregon at the 2025 Graduate Classic Indoor Track and Field Meet in Lincoln, Nebraska.