Consider Ekanem’s 10.10 performance ratified as fastest time in the world so far..
World Athletics has finally acknowledged Consider Ekanem’s World leading performance in the 100m at the Dynamics Athletics Meeting held at the Navy Sports Ground in Ojo, Lagos at the end of January.
Ekanem, trained by former African record holder, Seun Ogunkoya stormed home first in an impressive, lifetime best setting 10.10 seconds
It remains the fastest time in the world over the distance, supplanting the 10.13 Cameron’s Itoungue Bogognie ran 21 days earlier.
Ekanem’s time has finally been uploaded on World Athletics’ top list of performances for 2024 and the Nigerian is still top of the men’s 100m list some 17 days after that incredible performance that has set Nigerian athletics buffs talking about another Enoch Adegoke who raced to the top of the World list in the event in January 2021, made history as the fastest, full fledged home based athlete to run the legally fastest winning time (10.00) in the history of the Nigerian Championships enroute to becoming the first Nigerian in 25 years to run in the 100m final at the Olympics.
All eyes will now be on Ekanem to follow in the footsteps of both Adegoke and his coach, Ogunkoya who also stormed the Nigerian athletics scene with a big bang in 1996, running 10.15 on the road to winning the National Sports Festival title before breaking 10 seconds the following year. He also upstaged the great Davidson Ezinwa to win the Nigerian Championships.
