Ashe misses Tokyo 2025 mark with 10.14s finish in Tomblaine, France
Nigeria’s sprint hopeful Favour Ashe clocked 10.14 seconds to place fifth in the men’s 100m at the Meeting Stanislas Nancy 2025, held Friday night at Stade Raymond Petit in Tomblaine, France.
The 23-year-old, who opened his season with the same time at the MTN CHAMPS Continental Relays in Lagos, had been aiming to at least hit the 10.00s automatic qualifying standard for the World Athletics Championships Tokyo 2025, scheduled for 13–21 September.
Ashe had shown promise with a season’s best of 10.08s at the Anhalt Meeting in Dessau, Germany, just over two weeks ago. A repeat or improvement on that performance would have equaled the Meeting Stanislas record of 10.08s, previously held by Côte d’Ivoire’s Arthur Cissé since 2018.
Instead, that record now belongs to Senegal’s Mamadou Fall Sarr, who stormed to victory in 10.04s, narrowly missing his own national record of 10.03s set in Carquefou last month.
Canada’s Jerome Blake and Britain’s Louie Hinchliffe—the reigning British champion and 2024 NCAA outdoor 100m titleholder—both clocked 10.08s to finish second and third respectively.
Ashe, who famously became only the second Nigerian to break the 10-second barrier with a 9.99s run in 2022, will now turn his focus to the Nigerian Championships later this month, where he hopes to finally secure his ticket to Tokyo
