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Tokyo Olympics: Nigeria Crash Out Of 4×100 Female Event
Nigeria’s women’s 4 x 100 metres relay team were unsuccessful on Thursday as they could only turn in a time of 43.25 seconds in their heat at the Tokyo Olympic Games.
The sad development for Nigeria was compounded by the poor finishing of shot-putter Chukwuebuka Enekwechi who placed 12th in the final of the male shot put event also on Thursday.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the 43.25 seconds run by the female relay team could only place the team in sixth position in the eight-team heat 2 of the competition’s first round.
The result was a bad one for Team Nigeria, which had Tobiloba Amusan, Grace Nwokocha, Patience George and Ese Brume and which ran from lane 4 of the heat of the Tokyo Olympic games
They hold an African record of 42.39 (Barcelona Games in 1992) and season best of 42.97 (Lagos on June 19), which had looked good enough for them ahead of the competition.
Germany won the heat with a season best 42.00, while Switzerland were second with a national record of 42.05 and China third with 42.82.
All three teams qualified ahead of Poland and Brazil who had their season best records of 43.09 and 43.15 for fourth and fifth places respectively.
Meanwhile, Nigeria’s Chukwuebuka Enekwechi who shocked with a video of him washing the only jersey given to him ahead of the finals came 12th in the male shot put event in the ongoing Tokyo 2020 Olympics on Thursday morning.
He threw 19.74m on his third attempt to finish 12th in the event. Earlier, he committed a foul in his first attempt, and threw 18.87m in his second attempt.
GreenWhiteGreen GWG reports that the video of Enekwechi washing his jersey ahead of the event has further angered citizens on the poor preparations by Nigeria for the Tokyo Olympic games.
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