Ogazi, Ajayi Additionally Acquire, Ofili Replaces Ese Brume
Lengthy jumper, Prestina Ochonogor, has moved to quantity 5 in Nigeria and 611 on the earth, making her one of the best Nigerian within the general girls rankings launched by World Athletics.
Ochonogor made it to the ultimate at each the Paris 2024 Olympics and the World U20 Championships in Lima, Peru. From her rating because the 66th finest in Nigeria and seven,323 finest within the general girls rankings in January 2024, the lengthy jumper has, inside 10 months, moved to quantity 5 in Nigeria and 611 on the earth.
This geometrical rise in rating has made Ochonogor the most important Nigerian mover within the weekly World Athletics Rankings. Ochonogor’s leap to nationwide reckoning began in April 2023 on the African U18 Championships in Ndola, Zambia, the place her 6.00m leap was not solely adequate to fetch her a silver medal however was really a lifetime finest.
Precisely a 12 months later, the 18-year outdated has joined the listing of athletes who’ve hit the 6.70m mark. To show her efficiency in Calabar the place she jumped 6.79m was not influenced by something, the tall and fairly Ochonogor went to the most important athletics stage on earth and leapt into the ultimate of the lengthy leap occasion in her first try .
In response to SportsNow, Ochonogor will not be the one Nigerian feminine athlete who had this large transfer inside an area of 10 months. Quartermiler, Esther Elo Joseph, who additionally raced into nationwide reckoning in 2024, breaking 52 seconds six occasions this, was a 53.3 runner only a 12 months in the past.
Joseph has moved from being ranked twenty sixth finest in Nigeria and three,560 on the earth in January 2024 to sixth in Nigeria and 618 on the earth within the girls’s general rankings.
Tobi Amusan nonetheless leads the ladies’s general rating in Nigeria with Favour Ofili changing Ese Brume who has dropped right down to the third from the second she was in January.
For the male athletes, Quartermiler Samuel Ogazi and sprinter Kanyinsola Ajayi are among the many Nigerian largest movers on the earth rankings for 2024 following the most recent replace by World Athletics.
Each made their debut on the Paris 2024 Olympics and whereas Ogazi made it to the boys’s 400m remaining, turning into within the course of the primary Nigerian to take action since Harmless Egbunike final did in 1988. Ajayi ran all the best way to the semifinals of the 100m.
Ogazi was ranked the 18th finest Nigerian in January 2024 with 1132 rating rating and a pair of,556th on the earth on the identical time however the 18-year-old has moved to second in Nigeria and 206th on the earth with the 1322 the rating rating he garnered from his unbelievable performances within the outgone season.
He ran inside 45 seconds six occasions, a feat solely Egbunike surpassed, together with the 44.41 seconds he ran within the semifinal of the 400m on the Paris Olympics to set a brand new lifetime finest.
The reigning African U-18 200m and 400m king can also be ranked the thirteenth finest on the earth in his occasion as in opposition to his 164th rating in January. Like Ogazi, Ajayi additionally had a geometrical rise to nationwide and worldwide reckoning in 2024.
Ranked the 278th finest within the 100m on the earth in January 2024 when he was only a 10.27 runner, Ajayi confirmed Nigeria is full of a great deal of skills after his unbelievable rise. He first confirmed a glimpse of a star within the making when, in his first indoor season, he ran 6.60 to win the SEC Indoor Championships in Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA.
Outside, he adopted it up with seven runs inside 10.10 seconds together with a ten.00 lifetime finest efficiency on the Spitzen Leichtathletik meet in Luzern, Switzerland.
Ajayi started 2024 because the twenty fifth finest in Nigeria, 278th within the 100m and because the 3,013 finest on the earth however the 20-year-old will finish the 12 months because the 385th finest within the males’s general rating, twenty fifth finest on the earth within the 100m and the undisputed primary sprinter in Nigeria.
