Enoch Adegoke and Tobi Amusan have broken Nigeria\u2019s records in athletics at the Olympics.
Adegoke became Nigeria\u2019s first 100m Olympic finalist since 1996 clocking 10.00s in heat 2 of men\u2019s 100m semis.
With this, he broke a 25-year record after Davidson Ezinwa at Atlanta in 1996.
On her part, Amusan wins her first semi-final in 12.62s to become the first Nigerian since Glory Alozie at Sydney 2000 to qualify for the 100m Hurdles final at the Olympics.
She broke Nigeria\u2019s 21-year-old record.
Nigeria\u2019s Oduduru disqualified, Itsekiri advances in men\u2019s 100m
The men\u2019s 100m semis was a tight race that ended in a photo-finish, with Adegoke ending up in second place in 10.00secs, the same time as American T. Brommell, with Great Britain\u2019s Zharnel Hughes, who clocked 9.98secs, in the first place.
Compatriot Usheoritse Itsekiri crashed out in the semi-finals of the men\u2019s 100m after he finished seventh in his heat in 10.29secs.
Adegoke\u2019s 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\u2019s 100m hurdles event, Amusan clocked 12.62s to book a place in the final, which comes up today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Enoch Adegoke and Tobi Amusan have broken Nigeria\u2019s records in athletics at the Olympics.Adegoke became Nigeria\u2019s first 100m Olympic finalist since 1996 clocking 10.00s in heat 2 of men\u2019s 100m semis.With this, he broke a 25-year record after Davidson Ezinwa at Atlanta in 1996.On her part, Amusan wins her first semi-final in 12.62s to become […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":271301,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-crime","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=271158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/271301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=271158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=271158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=271158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}