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How Ese Brume Ended Nigeria’s 13 Year Wait For Olympic Medal
By Wendy Joseph
Nigeria won her first individual Olympic medal in 13 years at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games after Ese Brume brought Nigeria some fame and respect on August 3, 2021, when she won a Bronze Medal at the ongoing Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games in the women’s long jump.
Ese Brume recorded a leap of 6.97 meters in the final of the long jump event at the Tokyo Olympic Stadium ending Nigeria’s 13-year wait for an individual Olympic Medal.
The feat by the Delta-born Ese Brume came not long after she broke Chioma Ajunwa’s 25-year African women’s long jump record on June 12, 2021.
Before now, Ese Brume had also won Nigeria’s first medal at the 2019 Athletic World Championship in Doha. Although she lost the Silver medal to Ukraine’s Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk by an inch, she won Bronze in the long jump event after leaping to a 6.91m (+0.3 wind) in her second attempt.
Significantly, While Ese represented Nigeria at the 2016 Olympic Games where she placed 5th in the Long Jump final with a leap of 6.81m, she became the only Nigerian athlete who reached the final of her event at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio.
Winning the Bronze medal at the ongoing Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games was Nigeria’s first track and field medal at the Olympics after Okagbare’s win of a Silver medal in Beijing in 2008 also in the Long Jump event. Before then, Chioma Ajunwa had won a gold medal at the 1996 Olympics Games.
The only medal that Nigeria got since Rio was the football silver medal won by the football team in Rio.
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