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Nigerian female long jump ace, Ese Brume enacted another historic feat at the weekend, as she jumped to a silver medal at this year’s World Athletics Indoor Championship in Belgrade, Serbia.
In doing so, the Commonwealth champion and African record holder returned Nigeria to the championships podium for the first time since Olusoji Fasuba raced to 60m gold in Valencia in 2008.
The 25 year old Brume leapt a 6.85m personal season’s best in the third round to move to the silver medal position behind pre-championships favourite and home girl, Ivana Vuleta.
Megasportsarena.com reports that Brume eventually proved to be better than Vuleta, who took early command of the event with a 6.89m best in the second round before improving top 7.06m in the fourth round.
Though competing in her first World indoor championships, Brume who has won medals at the World outdoor championships (bronze in 2019) and Olympics (bronze in Tokyo), becomes only the third Nigerian athlete to win medals in all three global athletics competitions.
In following suit behind Glory Alozie and late Sunday Bada, Brume is also the third Nigerian long jumper to win a World Indoor title after Paul Emordi (1987) and Chioma Ajunwa (1997).
Brume began her quest for a podium finish with a 6.22m effort, then improved to 6.47m in the second round before her huge leap in the third that eventually landed her on the podium.
Renowned athletics writer, Dare Esan disclosed that further efforts to turn silver to gold were futile as she could only jump 6.66m, 6.76m and 6.67m in the fourth, fifth and final round.
The feat moved her to the top of the African and Nigerian indoor list for the year, joint fourth in the African all-time list behind Chioma Ajunwa (6.97m), Blessing Okagbare (6.87m) and Sierra leone’s Eunice Barber (6.86m).
Meanwhile, Ruth Usoro set a new personal season’s best of 6.69m to place eighth in the final classification, a huge lift for the 24 year old who has had an indifferent collegiate indoor season.
The Nigerian 4x400m relay team failed to make it to the final after running a personal season’s best time of 3:09.55.
With Brume’s silver medal win, Nigeria has now won 12 medals in the history of the Championships with two gold medals, seven silver and three bronze.
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