By Victor Kanayo
Baring any change, the duo of Nigeria’s track and field stars – Tobi Amusan and Ese Brume may not have wild card entries for the 2024 World Indoor Championships in Glasgow, Scotland.
According to the scoring disciplines released by World Athletics for the 2023 indoor season, the Gold level scoring disciplines do not include the women’s 60m hurdles and long jump events.
The Gold level scoring disciplines includes Women: 60m, 800m, 3000m/5000m, pole vault, triple jump, shot put. Men: 400m, 1500m, 60m hurdles, high jump, long jump.
The World Athletics body revealed that only the winner of each scoring discipline at the end of the 2023 World Indoor tour will be awarded a $10,000 bonus.
They will also be offered a wild card entry for the World Athletics Indoor Championships Glasgow 2024.
As it stands, Amusan who skipped the indoor season in 2022 and Brume who won a silver medal at the World Indoor Championships in Belgrade, Serbia in March, will have to secure qualification by meeting the qualification standard that will be released by World Athletics.
Amusan, the reigning World 100m hurdles champion and record holder set her 7.84 seconds personal best in the 60m hurdles in Karlsruhe in January 2020, while Brume will also have to look beyond the gold level meetings.
