Tokyo Olympics: Adegoke Becomes First Nigerian To Reach 100m Final

Enoch Adegoke of Nigeria qualified for the final of the men’s 100m heat at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in Japan on Sunday.

Adegoke became Nigeria’s first 100m Olympic finalist since 1996, posting a time of 10.00s in Heat 2 of the men’s 100m semi-final, 25 years after Davidson Ezinwa in Atlanta.

According to NewsDirect, Adegoke beat the fastest guy in the world this year and the seventh fastest of all time, USA’s Trayvon Brommel, in the men’s 100 meters event on Saturday.

Adegoke won the men’s 100 meters in 9.98 seconds, beating Brommel, who set the pre-Games world record of 9.77 seconds last month in Florida, USA, and qualified for Sunday’s semi-finals.

The 21-year-old sprinter, who competed in the event’s first round on Lane 6 of Heat 2 at the Olympic Stadium, topped Qatar’s Femi Ogunode, who finished in 10.02.