Izuchukwu OkosiNigeria’s Tobi Amusan became the first Nigerian to win gold medal at the World Athletics Championships in the 100m Hurdles event after clocking 12.06s in the early hours of Monday morning reports Prime Business Africa.
The multiple hurdle jumper however had a wind guage of 2.5m/s which eventually meant the feat was not declared a world record.
The Championship is in its 40th year since it began.
The Nigerian contingent to the Championship in Oregon, USA had not won a medal but on the last day of the Championship, Amusan and compatriot Ese Brume made their country proud with gold and silver medals.
Amusan in the semifinals had ran a time of 12.12s.
She however repeated her blistering form in the final despite the high wind recorded and was rewarded with the sum of $100,000 (N65million) by the organisers, World Athletics.
Ese Brume completed a weekend of double delight for Nigeria as she claimed the silver medal the women’s long jump event by jumping to a time of 7.2 metres.
Brume had won bronze in Qatar 2019 World Athletics Championship and another bronze medal at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games which was held in 2021 due to the Coronavirus pandemic.
Nigeria finished joint 13th on the medals table with the Dominican Republic.
Izuchukwu Okosi is a Nigerian sports and entertainment journalist with two decades of experience in the media industry having begun his media journey in 2002 as an intern at Mundial Sports International (MSI) and Africa Independent Television (AIT), owners of Daar Communications Plc.
In October 2004, Okosi joined Complete Communications Limited, publishers of Complete Sports newspaper and Complete Football magazine as a reporter and later script writer for the Complete Sports studio.
He worked there for 13 years until October 2017.
Okosi also worked various times as Correspondent, Content creator and Editor at Sports Market International Magazine, Opera News, All Nigeria Soccer Media and Iconic Media Watch.
He also undertook freelance writing gigs for some local and international organizations.
Okosi is a member of the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN), Association of Movie Producers (AMP), Association of Voiceover Artistes of Nigeria (AVOA), Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN) and Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ).
He has been part of cast in some Nollywood movies and radio dramas including Blood Money 2, Scores To Settle, Dead End 2, Another Campus Tale and Battle Line.
Aside mainstream media and the entertainment industry, he has interests in scouting/unearthing of talents in the sports and creative sectors, exports business and property development.
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