[BREAKING] Olympics: Nigeria's medal hopeful Ese Brume leaps into final - Punch Newspapers

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Nigerian athlete Ese Brume on Sunday reached the final of the women’s long jump event at the ongoing Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.Reigning World Indoor champion and three-time European indoor champion

Ivana Spanovic was first in Group B with a jump of 7.00m, while current world champion Malaika Mihambo, a German, was third with a 6.98m leap. British Virgin Islands’ Chantel Malone came third. The 25-year-old Brume, who won bronze at the 2019 World Championships in Doha, is seen as one of the country’s strong medal prospects in Tokyo, having jumped a distance of 7.17m at the Chule Vista Festival in California in May to shatter Chioma Ajunwa’s 25-year long jump record of 7.12m.

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