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Last weekend had several exceptional performances from Nigerian athletes. Here's a recap of the best performers.
Nigerian athletes in the NCAA and elite circuit have been churning out exceptional performances every week since the 2023 indoor season began.
Last week was even more historic as continental and national records were smashed, while others produced massive Personal Bests in their respective events.
So selecting the best five performers last weekend (February 10 - 11) wasn't an easy one, but here we go.
Sade Olatoye's National Record
Olatoye won the women's Weight Throw event at the Music City Challenge, throwing a huge Personal Best (PB) of 25.32m, which shattered her previous best of 24.46m.
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Her mark became the new National Record (NR) and propelled her to fifth-best in world history.
She had a series of very good throws going over the 24m mark thrice and led from the first attempt. The 25.32m came in the fifth and final round, confirming her current fantastic form.
Favour Ofili's African Record
Ofili shattered her indoor PB and 200m African Record (AR) of 22.46s, with a new 22.36s to win the event at the Tiger Paw Invitational.
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The Louisiana State University (LSU) junior also set about three different records - Nigerian Record, School Record, and Facility Record. She also attained four different feats with the time - World lead, NCAA lead, the second fastest time in NCAA history, and the sixth fastest in world history.
Ofili now owns the top seven fastest times by an African indoor 200m female runner in history, with her progression reading thus - 22.75s, 22.71s, 22.61s, 22.59s, 22.52s, 22.46s, and 22.36s.
Rosemary Chukwuma's School Record
Since the indoor season began, Chukwuma has been racing to record-breaking times, this time clocking 22.82s to win the 200m event at the Jarvis Scott Open in Lubbock.
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Her fantastic time smashed her PB of 22.99s clocked two weeks ago, and just 0.02s shy of Mureille Ahoure's second fastest time of 22.80s in African history, as Favour Ofili leads the pack with her recently clocked African Record (AR) of 22.36s.
The Texas Tech University junior also broke the School Record (SR) set in 2015 and is now the SR holder in the 60m and 200m indoors.
Godson Brume's double PBs in the 60m and 200m
Every week, the LSU sophomore speedster keeps getting better and improving on his PBs.
Last weekend at the Tyson Invitational, Brume first tied his PB of 6.69s in the preliminaries, which was good enough to make the final. Then he massively dropped it to 6.60s to take second in the final, which propelled him to third on the all-time LSU performance list.
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The following day, the brilliant athlete in form sped to another impressive PB of 21.12s to finish second in his 200m qualifying heat, erasing his previous best of 21.26s.
Ruth Usoro's triple jump season debut
Usoro made her season's debut in the triple jump, leaping to a distance of 14.09m to win the event at the Don Kirby Elite Indoor Meet on Friday.
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It is Usoro's best career season opener in the event, backing up her fantastic World Championships qualifying standard of 6.87m in the long jump a few weeks ago, which remains the world lead.
The talented jumper is surely on to big things this year.
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