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Alaba went from a 10.2 guy to running consistent 10.0s in his 2 seasons at Middle Tennessee 🇬🇭 Mustapha Bopkin went from a 10.2 guy in the NAIA to running multiple sub-10s in his first year at Middle Tennessee last season I think this is a solid choice by Godwin

17-year old Nigerian-born/Japanese-based 🇳🇬 Haru Balogun ran a personal best 37.17 seconds to win the U18 Girls 300m final at the Aomori Japan Games. This is the 3rd fastest time ever ran by a Nigerian-born U20 athlete She also ran a wind-aided 23.16s in the 200m this season

Coach Lacena Golding-Clarke has also found a new home at Middle Tennessee State, she joins the coaching staff this year after serving as an Assistant Coach at Auburn for the last 4 years

What the Women’s 4x100 could look like at Worlds in Beijing next year 1st Leg: Godbless / Ogundiran 2nd Leg: Olajide / Chukwuka 3rd Leg: Chukwuma / Chigozie 4th Leg: Ezechukwu

As the 2026 season wraps up, 3 Nigerian 🇳🇬 athletes have the auto qualifying standard for the 2027 World Champs (not counting Ofili) Tobi Amusan [100mH] Kayinsola Ajayi [100m] Ezekiel Nathaniel [400mH] Relays Automatically Qualified: Women’s 4x100m Mixed 4x100m Mixed 4x400m

🇳🇬 Pro T&F Action This Weekend Athlos London 🇬🇧 9/18 ▪️ Tobi Amusan - 100mH Décastar 🇫🇷 9/18-19 ▪️ Jami Schlueter - Decathlon

I would like to see her run more 60mH races in the future. Most Jamaican coaches don’t think indoor races are worth anything for outdoor but maybe that could help clean up those first few hurdles

🇳🇬 Tobi Amusan finished in 2nd place in the Women’s 100mH final at the World Ultimate Championships She ran 12.34 seconds (+0.1m/s) to cross the line behind 🇺🇸 Masai Russell who ran 12.22 seconds

🇳🇬 Ella Onojuvwevwo ran 50.50 seconds in her Women’s 400m semifinal heat at the World Athletics Ultimate Championships. She finished in 6th place and will not advance to the final Paulino 🇩🇴- 49.58s Q Naser 🇧🇭 - 49.67s Q Pryce 🇯🇲 - 49.72s Q Gomez 🇨🇺 - 50.34s Q John 🇬🇧 - 50.38s

Qualified in May National Trials in June Commonwealth and World U20s in ended over a month ago There was plenty of time to get their stuff together. Did they just forget about it? What have the officials been doing all this time???

Team Nigeria 🇳🇬 will not be fielding a Mixed 4x100m relay team at the World Ultimate Championships today Nigeria earned a spot by finishing 6th in the Mixed 4x100m final at World Relays in May, and were on the original entry list. They were taken off the startlist this morning

No Ajayi makes sense from how the legs have to be set up. Tobi needs to focus on her hurdles. Would prefer Udodi on 3rd over Alaba but there’s multiple reasons why that might not happen Ashe - Rosemary - Alaba - Miracle seems most likely

🇳🇬 Pro T&F Action This Week Brussels Diamond League Final 🇧🇪 9/4-5 ▪️ Tobi Amusan - 100mH 💎 ▪️ Ezekiel Nathaniel - 400mH 💎 ▪️ Kayinsola Ajayi - 100m 💎

🇳🇬 Kayinsola Ajayi will join the lineup for the Men’s 100m Diamond League Final in Brussels on September 4th Ajayi won the Men’s 100m at the London Diamond League and the Prefontaine Classic earlier this season 📸: diamondleagueathletics (IG)

🇳🇬 2026 Leaderboard ◼️ Women’s 100m Rosemary Chukwuma - 10.95s Blessing Ogundiran - 10.98s [PB] Tima Godbless - 11.08s Olayinka Olajide - 11.13s [PB] Oluebebe Ezechukwu - 11.15s [PB] Obi Jennifer Chukwuka - 11.24s [PB] Maria Omokwe - 11.26s [PB]

Definitely a very recent development as we get closer to Ultimate (she was still listed in the ranking as of Friday/early Saturday). But it looks Ofili will decline the invite. Likely to avoid any nationality drama and keep her waiting period intact

🇳🇬 Pro T&F Action This Weekend ◼️ Grand Prix Brescia 8/30 🇮🇹 Tobi Amusan - 100mH Favour Ofili - 200m ◼️ ISTAF Berlin 8/30 🇩🇪 Ruth Usoro - Long Jump ◼️ GalAthletics Bellinzona 8/30 🇨🇭 Kayinsola Ajayi - 100m

🇺🇸 ➡️ 🇳🇬 ➡️ 🇺🇸 According to World Athletics, it appears that 20 year old sprinter Kelly Ufodiama has transferred her allegiance back to the USA. She switched allegiance to Nigeria during the 2025 season. In 2026, she set personal bests of 22.53s in the 200m & 7.14s in the 60m

🇳🇬 Udodi Onwuzurike ran 20.26 seconds (-0.8m/s) to finish in 2nd place in the Men’s 200m at the International Wiesław Maniak Memorial in Poland 🇺🇸 Brandon Hicklin was the winner running 20.24 seconds

Ashe is no longer on the startlist for this meet