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Nigeria's Ese Brume competes in the women's long jump final during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo on August 3, 2021. Photo: AFPEse Brume on Tuesday gave Team Nigeria their first medal at the ongoing Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games with a bronze medal in the women’s long jump event.
Brume recorded a 6.97 metres jump in the final of the event at the Tokyo Olympic Stadium to win her first Olympic medal and Nigeria’s first at this Games.Brume won gold in long jump at the 2019 African Games after leaping 6.69m. This was her third consecutive African senior title.Brume on June 12, 2021 in the United States broke Chioma Ajunwa’s 25-year African women’s long jump record.
She leapt a distance of 7.17m at the Chula Vista Field Festival in California to break the 7.13m record set by Ajunwa on her way to winning gold at the Atlanta 1996 Olympic Games. Brume leapt the distance in her sixth jump, after earlier leaping 6.75m, 6.83m, 6.83m, 6.88m and 6.83m respectively.Ese Brume won the first medal for Nigeria at the 2019 Athletics World Championship in Doha.She lost the silver medal to Ukraine’s Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk by an inch.
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