Ramat Jimoh makes Mississippi State University Cross Country history, runs first ever sub-20 minutes in 6km

Ramat Jimoh made history as the first Mississippi State University student athlete to break 20 minutes in the 6km Cross Country race early Friday morning.

The 21-year-old ran 19:56.1 to place 23rd at the SEC Cross Country Championships held at Bryan-College Station, Texas and lead her school team to their highest team finish (sixth) in several years.

Jimoh has become the third Nigerian after Falilat Ogunkoya (200m-22.82 and 400m-51.26) and Festus Igbinoghene (Long Jump–8.22mW and Triple Jump-16.54m) to hold a school record.

The Osheku Athletics Academy product has been improving since she left Nigeria on a scholarship to the USA in 2023.

She set a personal best of 17:01.05 in the 500m at the SEC Outdoor Championships in Gainesville, Florida in May and 9:45.03 in the 3000m indoors in February in Nashville, Tennessee and

A month earlier in Fayetteville, Arkansas, she set a new 4:58.10 lifetime best in the Mile Short Track and 9:57.48 in the 3000 Metres Short Track, also in Fayetteville in February this year.