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Nigeria's fastest rising sprinter Udodi Onwuzurike announced his signing with the Adidas family, joining Tobi Amusan and Ese Brume.
NCAA 200m champion Udodi Onwuzurike has joined Tobi Amusan and Ese Brume in the elite league of professional athletes signed with shoe giants Adidas.
This is a follow-up to the Pulse Sports report that Onwuzurike was forgoing his student-athlete scholarship at the prestigious Stanford University and turning professional.
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Onwuzurike has now announced he will run professionally for the Three Stripes company after making a video reveal on his Instagram account.
"Impossible Is Nothing. Excited for this new chapter @adidas"
The 20-year-old became the NCAA 200m champion this season, has respective Personal Bests of 19.76s and 9.92s in the 200m and 100m, and classified as one of the brightest young sprinters in the world.
Noteworthy is that his 19.76s is the fifth-fastest time in the world this year and the second-fastest by a Nigerian athlete in history.
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17:20 - 09.11.2023
Tobi Amusan may lose her Diamond League trophy and over N35 MILLION if...
After making history at the 2023 Diamond League final in Eugene and earning prize money of over N35 million, Tobi Amusan may lose this based on a fresh revelation.
Competing for Nigeria, he won the World U20 title in the 200m event in Nairobi, Kenya, and was a part of the bronze-medal winning 4x100m quartet at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England.
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With Onwuzurike joining Adidas, he is now the fourth Nigerian athlete signed currently with the company after Amusan, Brume, and Favour Ofili.
He will be gunning to have a memorable first professional season as he prepares to make a worthy appearance at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
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