The 100m hurdles world record holder, Tobi Amusan, has been selected for Nigeria’s relay squad for the 13th African Games in Ghana, according to the final list of athletes released by the AFN.
In addition to her usual 100m hurdles event, Amusan will be competing in the 100m, 200m, and 4x100m relay.
The 2022 World 100m hurdles champion will be aiming to become only the second Nigerian woman to successfully defend an African Games title in the same event twice, after Vivian Chukwuemeka, who won the Shot Put title three times at Johannesburg ’99 in South Africa, the Abuja 2003 Games in Nigeria, and 2007 in Algeria.
Tobi Amusan won her maiden African Games women’s hurdles title on her debut in 2015, and she successfully defended it in 2019, setting a new 12.68 seconds Games Record in the process.
Now, she is aiming for a third consecutive title in the event, which would make her the only Nigerian woman to achieve such a feat in track and field in the history of the Games.
The Athletics event will start on Monday March 18th.
TEAM NIGERIA
WOMEN
200M/4x100M
OLAJIDE OLAYINKA
BLESSING OGUNDIRAN
JUSTINA TIANA EYAKPOBEYAN
ABINUSAWA MOFOREHAN
ONYEBUCHI CHISOM
AMUSAN TOBILOBA
400M/4X400M
PATIENCE OKON GEORGE
ESTHER ELO JOSEPH
BRITTANY OGUNMOKUN
OKON ESTHER
SAIBU YETUNDE
OGUNMAKINJU OMOLARA
800M
COMFORT ANIETIE
100M HURDLES
AMUSAN TOBILOBA
FAITH OSAMUYI
STELLA AYANLEKE
1500M
RONKE AKANBI
3000M STEEPLE CHASE
RONKE AKANBI
HIGH JUMP
EWA PEACE
LONG JUMP
ESE BRUME
RUTH USORO
PRISTINA OCHONOGOR
TRIPLE JUMP
RUTH USORO
SHOT PUT
SADE OLATOYE
HAMMER THROW
SADE OLATOYE
DISCUS THROW
CHIOMA ONYEKWERE
ASHLEY ANUMBA
OBIAGERI PAMELA
JAVELIN
VICTORIA KPARIKA
HEPTATHLON
KEMI PETERSEN
MEN
100M/200M/4X100M
CONSIDER EKANEM
ITSHEKIRI USHEORITSE
OKON ISRAEL
SEYE OGUNLEWE
ALABA AKINTOLA
ADEGOKE ENOCH
ADEKALU FAKOREDE
400M/4X400M
DUBEM NWACHUKWU
NATHANIEL EZEKIEL
CHIDI OKEZIE
SIKIRU ADEYEMI
NATHANIEL SAMSON
OJELI IFEANYI
DANIEL ATINAYA
800M
IBADIN EDOSE
1500M
HAMID SAMBO
110M HURDLES
MUSA GREAT WISDOM
400M HURDLES
NATHANIEL EZEKIEL
NATHANIEL SAMSON
HALF-MARATHON
ADAMU SHEHU MU’AZU
HIGH JUMP
FIAKU GOODLUCK
LONG JUMP
NJOKU EMMANUEL
SHOT PUT
CHUKWUEBUKA CORNELL
EMEKA UGWU
JAVELIN
SAMUEL KURE
NNAMDI CHINWECHEREM
OFFICIALS
TEAM LEADER
CHIEF TONOBOK OKOWA
TEAM COACH/TECHNICAL LEADER
SAMUEL ONIKEKU
TEAM COACH
TEYE ENDURANCE
TEAM COACH
GAD ONUMAEGBU
TEAM COACH
KOLA ADEBAYO
TEAM COACH
SOLOMON ALIYU
TEAM COACH
KAYODE YAYA
TEAM COACH
DEJI ALIU
TEAM COACH
MOHAMMED DABO
TEAM COACH
KENNETH ONUAGULUCHI
TEAM COACH
GABRIEL OKON
TEAM ADMIN
RITA MOSINDI