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… Onwuzurike tops Nigerian outdoor list
By Monica Iheakam
Commonwealth Games and former African U18 and U20 champion, Rosemary Chukwuma ran a wind-legal 11.21 to finish third behind Mississippi University’s McKenzie Long (11.00) and University of Kentucky’s Anthaya Charlton (11.13) in the 100m final at the 95th Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays in Austin, Texas on Saturday evening.
Before the finals, Chukwuma, 21, stormed to a wind-aided 11.08 semifinals.
Former World U20 200m champion, Udodi Onwuzurike stormed to the top of the Nigerian 100m outdoor list after scorching to a 10.07 finish to win the blue riband event at the 2023 Stanford Invitational held at the Cobb Track & Angell Field in Palo Alto, California.
The Nigerian, 20, hinted of a possible sub-10.10 seconds run in the semifinal when he ran 10.15 to win and qualify for the final.
It is the fastest time by a Nigerian so far this outdoor season and the joint fifth fastest in the world. It is also Onwuzurike’s joint second fastest time ever after running his 10.05 lifetime best May in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
Onwuzurike shot to limelight at the 2021 World U20 championships in Nairobi, Kenya where he ran 20.21 to win the 200m title. Last year he fulfilled expectations by improving his personal best to 10.03 in the 100m and 20.08 in the 200m.
In the men’s version, Godson Oghenebrume anchored the LSU to place first in 38.53 ahead of University of Iowa (38.70) and University of Tennessee (3885) who finished second and third respectively.
