Chukwuebuka Enekwechi wins Brazil meet, produces Season's Best performance

Chukwuebuka Enekechi

Chukwuebuka Enekwechi wins Brazil meet, produces Season's Best performance

Funmilayo Fameso 20:42 - 07.05.2023

Chuwuebuka Enekwechi produced his best performance of the season to win the men's Shot Put in Brazil.

Nigerian Record holder in the Shot Put, Chukwuebuka Enekwechi produced his best performance of the season at the Adehemar Ferreira da Silva Meet on Sunday.

Enekwechi threw his implement to an impressive distance of 21.25m which was enough to win the event.

Chukwuebuka Enekwechi victorious in Brazil meet
Chukwuebuka Enekwechi

His mark is now tied joint ninth-best throw in the world this season and erased his previous SB of 20.12m set last weekend at the Drake Relays.

It is also better than all his throws in the indoor season, having thrown a Personal Best (PB) of 21.20m on his season's debut at the American Track League in January.

His indoor PB projected him to be second on the Nigerian all-time indoor list, behind Josh Awotunde's 21.33m recorded in 2018 and ahead of Stephen Mozia's 21.18m in 2016.

Enekwechi has been Nigeria and Africa's most consistent Shot Put thrower in the past five years. He has won all continental and national titles available at his disposal, throwing record-breaking times to follow them up.

Meanwhile, Chioma Onyekwere also competed at the meet, throwing a best of 56.43m to finish sixth in the women's Discus event.

Onyekwere swings Discus to new African Record
Chioma Onyekwere

Last month (April 16th), Onyekwere threw a massive PB of 64.96m to win the Discus throw event at the Oklahoma Throws series.

Her mark not only shattered her Nigerian Record of 63.30m set in 2021 but broke the previous African Record of 64.87m recorded by South Africa's Elizna Naude in 2007.

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