Nigeria’s Ese Brume has won Silver medal at the 2022 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Belgrade, Serbia.
Brume on Sunday won Nigeria’s only medal at the World Indoor Championships, leaping to a new Personal Best of 6.85m to clinch the Silver medal in women’s Long Jump event.
The Olympics medalist finished behind home favourite Ivana Vuleta who won GOLD with a World Leading (WL) jump of 7.06m.
Ese Brume becomes the third Nigerian athlete to win medals in all three global athletics championships, including the Olympics.
She won medals at the World Outdoor Championships (bronze in 2019) and the Olympics (bronze in Tokyo in 2021).
The 25-year-old has now joined Glory Alozie and the late Sunday Bada as Nigerian athletes who have won medals at the World Athletics Championships indoor and outdoor, as well as the Olympics.
Nigeria had waited for 14 years to win a World Indoor Championships medal since Olusoji Fasuba last won one in 2008, winning the 60m title in Valencia when he clocked a then WL of 6.51s.
