Olympics: Adegoke, Amusan zoom into final, Itsekiri crashes out

1 August 2021



Nigeria’s Enoch Adegoke and Oluwatobi Amusan on Sunday put up impressive performances to reach the finals of the men’s 100m and women’s 100m hurdles events respectively, at the ongoing Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

The men’s 100m semis was a tight race that ended in a photo-finish, with Adegoke ending up in second place in 10.00secs, same time as American T. Brommell, with Great Britain’s Zharnel Hughes, who clocked 9.98secs, in the first place.

Compatriot Usheoritse Itsekiri crashed out in the semi-finals of the men’s 100m after he finished seventh in his heat in 10.29secs.

Adegoke’s 10.00secs is the slowest among the eight athletes who qualified for the final, and the Nigerian, who clocked 9.98secs on the way to the semis, will be hoping to be in the form of his life to end up on the podium.

In the women’s 100m hurdles event, Amusan clocked 12.62s to book a place in the final, which comes up on Monday.

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10.00 secs is the slowest among the finalist nothing is impossible guy. Go for it

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