Mercy
Nku, former Nigeria 100m champion
and two-time World Athletics
Championships finalist, believes Ese Brume can become the first Nigerian woman
to win a World Indoor Championships title.
Brume is the lone Nigerian
woman participating in the championships slated to hold this weekend in Glasgow, Scotland.
The 27 year old won a silver
medal at the last edition of the
championships and Nku is confident the Olympic bronze medallist
can deliver gold because she has
proved to have the big ocassion
temperament.
Brume is seventh on the World
Athletics’ top list of performers
going to the championships but
Nku, finalist in the 60m event
in Lisbon, Portugal in 2001 says
Brume has proved it is what matters on the day that is crucial.
‘Two years ago in Serbia, Ese
came from almost nowhere to win
the silver medal. She didn’t compete in the pre-championships
circuit but jumped 6.85m in the final,” said Nku who won the 100m
gold at the African Games in 1999.
Nigerian women
deserve to have at least a world
indoor champion.
“Sunday Bada and Olusoji
Fasuba won gold for Nigeria at
the championships but it is the
women that have done more for
Nigeria and Ese can do that for us
so that we can complete the circle
of having an Olympic, World
outdoor and indoor champion,”
added Nku.
