Workforce Nigeria’s Ezekiel Nathaniel broke a 12-year report to advance to the semifinals of the boys’s 400m hurdles occasion on the ongoing Paris 2024 Olympic Video games yesterday.
He secured his place within the semifinal by ending second in warmth 4 with 48.32 secs, changing into the primary Nigerian to attain the feat in 12 years after Amaechi Morton on the London 2012 Olympics.
Within the males’s 400m occasion, Samuel Ogazi ran a brand new private better of 44.50 secs to complete second behind USA’s Quincy Corridor, who received the race in 44.28 secs. Ogazi’s spectacular efficiency marked the primary time in 16 years {that a} Nigerian male quarter-miler will qualify for the 400m semifinals on the Olympics.
