Reigning Nigeria king of speed, Enoch Adegoke chose the biggest stage in sports, the Olympics to join the exclusive club of sub-10 seconds runners after racing home first in 9.98 seconds in his first round heat to qualify for the 100m semifinal at the ongoing Tokyo Olympics.

Adegoke who ran a historic 10.00 seconds last month to win the Nigeria 100m title was under pressure to match the impressive performance of Grace Nwokocha in the women’s 100m after both dominated the Nigerian local athletics circuit like never before and the 21 year old lived up to expectations, beating in the process the fastest man in the world this year and seventh fastest of all-time, USA’s Trayvon Brommel who tops the pre-Games world list with the 9.77 seconds he ran last month in Florida, USA.

Also through to the semifinal is Ushoritse Itshekiri who placed third in his first round heat while Nigeria’s third entrant in the event, Divine Oduduru was disqualified for false starting.

Meanwhile Nwokocha failed to advance to the women’s 100m final after finishing fifth in her semifinal heat with another sub- 11.10 seconds performance, the second in two days.

The 20 year old performance has been remarkable after becoming the fastest Nigeria based athlete since Mercy Nku ran 11.04 seconds in 1997 in Benin City.

In the 100m hurdles Tobi Amusan ran 12.72 seconds to win her first round heat and keep her hope of becoming the second Nigerian to win a sprint hurdles medal at the Olympics after Glory Alozie won a silver medal in Sydney in 2000.

The 24 year old has been drawn to run from lane five in the first semifinal heat at 11.45 am (Nigeria time) on Saturday.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/07/tokyo-2020-adegoke-beats-2021-worlds-fastest-man-oduduru-disqualified/

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Thumbs up Guys!

youngest85:
Na lie..... this cannot be true

Benin amaka

Who is the Nigerian guy running for Qatar?

youngest85:
Na lie..... this cannot be true

It's .true, i watched it life. The guy na machine.

Impressive.

youngest85:
Na lie..... this cannot be true

Am telling you. I surprise myself

Hope he doesn't fail another drug test.

Memberclub:
Who is the Nigerian guy running for Qatar?

Na one Ondo guy like that. Nigerian Athletic Federation played politics with selection of athletes for London Olympics. Those who weren't competent were chosen instead of him so he left for Qatar. Qatar granted him citizenship one time. He's been doing well in the Arab side ever since. He's a big boy over there, very popular

ProfAmaben:
Hope he doesn't fail another drug test.

He didn't fail one. Those who did were disqualified

Thanks God for him. At least we fit open mouth talk small now

Kudos guys

Wo

Eriokanmi:
He didn't fail one. Those who did were disqualified

Hmmmmm, nice one from him, he has made us proud.

Congrats to adegoke. Was a student at OAU, met him and saw him run once at sports center oau...the dude runs like a race dog, also seen him a few times jugging road one.... consistency really pays. Congrats to the other Qatari Yoruba boy(despite his race or religion the Islamic nation of Qatar didn't pick him based off his race or whether he was a muslim or not)

Congrats to Adegoke.
Congrats to OAU.
Congrats to Qatar.
Congrats to Yorubaland.

The Qatar reps is a Nigerian

OwenJesse27:
Benin amaka

Who dash am Benin?

That's nice.
More power to his elbow.

Memberclub:
Who is the Nigerian guy running for Qatar?

Femi Ogunode

Nigeria just dey share athletes up and down

Lalasticlala front page material

More wins bro....

Old news...

Nigga already in the final by a whisker

DoggoneDogg:
Old news...

yesterday na old news