Ese Brume picks Olympics, World Championship tickets in Doha, boycotts ANAC

National Sports Festival women long jump national record holder, Ese Brume, has qualified for Tokyo 2020 Olympics and 2019 World Athletics Championship in Doha, Qatar. 

The 2014 Commonwealth and current African champion, who set a festival record of 6.83m in Abuja last December, jumped a world leading distance of 6.96m in Erzurum, Kadin, Turkey on Wednesday to qualify for the two global competitions having attained the IAAF qualifying standard of 6.84m. 

Ese, who is a top prospect for the gold medal at next month’s African Games in Morocco, however fell short of the African and national record of 7.12m set by police woman, Chioma Ajunwa to win gold at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. 

The multiple African junior champion erased her personal best thrice at the same competition after leaping a distance of 6.84m, 6.87m before jumping the world leading distance, which puts her in contention for a medal at the Qatar World Athletics Championship later in the year. 

Brume is conspicuously missing at the ongoing 2019 All Nigeria Athletics Championship (ANAC), at the Ahmadu Bello Stadium, Kaduna. 

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