Favour Ashe hunts Tokyo 2025 ticket at Meeting Stanislas in Tomblaine

Nigeria’s sprint star, Favour Ashe, is gearing up for a crucial showdown this Friday at the Meeting Stanislas in Tomblaine, France. The 23-year-old knows exactly what’s at stake—a golden ticket to the 20th World Athletics Championships later this year in Tokyo, Japan.

After an uneven start to the season, Ashe has been steadily finding his rhythm. He opened with a 10.14s dash at the MTN CHAMPS Continental Relays in Lagos, but more recently, he surged to a season-best of 10.08s at the 27th Anhalt Meeting in Dessau, Germany.

That marked a turning point in his campaign—showing the kind of form that’s earned him sub-10-second finishes in each of the last three seasons.

Now, as the fifth fastest Nigerian sprinter this year, Ashe is locked in on a singular goal: crack 10.00 seconds and book his place in Tokyo. It’s the automatic qualification mark for the World Championships—and it’s well within his striking range.

But there’s another accolade tempting him down the track at Stade Raymond-Petit: the Meeting Stanislas 100m record. The current mark of 10.08s was set by Côte d’Ivoire’s Arthur Gue Cissé back in 2018. Should Ashe eclipse it, he’ll not only punch his ticket to Tokyo but also etch his name in the record books.