Ese Brume targets 6.80m automatic qualifying mark to make third straight World Athletics Championships final

Enekwechi given 21.40m mark to make it to third consecutive final

Two-time World Athletics Championships medalist, Ese Brume must hit the 6.80m automatic qualification mark on Saturday to be sure of competing in her third consecutive long jump final while Ruth Usoro will also be aiming for her second straight final if she also hits the mark.

The duo will be competing in the final of a World Athletics series event for the third time in two years and will be looking to make it to the final for the
third straight time.

Brume and Usoro first competed in the long jump final at the World Indoor Championships in Belgrade, Serbia last year with the former leaping to the podium
to claim a silver medal while the latter ended up eighth in the overall classification.

At the outdoor version in Oregon, USA, Brume again made it to the podium to claim her second silver of the year while Usoro finished 11th in the final.

Brume will be hoping to return to the form that fetched her a 6.81 personal season’s best at the ORLEN Janusz Kusociński Memorial in Chorzów, Poland in June
while Usoro, the African leader in the event so far this year only needs to repeat the 6.87m she jumped in May that leap into a second World outdoor
championships final.

The final will hold on Sunday evening.

In the men’s Shot Put, Chukwuebuka only needs a repeat of the 21.40m he threw at the P-T-S meeting 2023 in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia to qualify for the final
for the third time in four years.

The 30 year old holds a personal season’s best of 21.69 he achieved at the end of May but knows he only needs to throw farther than that only in the final to
make history as the first Nigerian to win a Shot Put medal.

The final of the event will come up later on Saturday evening.

Meanwhile, the Nigeria mixed relay team will also be in action on Saturday morning and will be seeking to either be among the third automatic qualifiers from the scond semifinal heat or be one of the two non-automatic (fastest losers) across the two semifinal heats.

The Nigerians, with a 3:13. 60 personal best and finalist at the 18th edition of the championships last year in Oregon will battle seven other countries who have ran faster this year and overall for those three automatic slots.