Commonwealth Games 2022: Amusan, Brume in final day Gold haul for Nigeria

With 12 gold medals in the kitty, the 2022 Commonwealth Games, which ended in Birmingham, United Kingdom, on Sunday, became the best ever so far for Nigeria.

The best the country had ever recorded previously was 11 gold medals at Victoria 1994 where Nigeria finished in the fourth position with 11 gold, 13 silver and 13 bronze and 37 medals overall while the country recorded same number of gold medals at Delhi 2010, same as Glasgow 2014.

Nigeria finished seventh on the medal table with 12 Gold, nine Silver and 14 Bronze, bring the total medal haul to 35.

Ese Brume won the country’s 12th gold medal after her Commonwealth Games record of 7.00m in the Women’s Long Jump final on Sunday.

Before her jump, Nigeria was on 11 gold medals after another Commonwealth Games record from Tobi Amusan in the women 100m hurdles and the 4x100m women relay team on Sunday.

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Brume secured the win in 7.00m with her last jump while Brooke Buschkuehl from Australia won the silver medal with her jump of 6.95m as Ghanaian’s Deborah Acquah won the bronze after jumping a new Personal Best of 6.94.

The other Nigerian in the final Ruth Usoro finished in the sixth position as she could only jump a distance of 6.56m.

Despite winning her race comfortably, Amusan said she did not execute it to the best of her ability.

“Mentally, it was challenging. It was nerve-racking. You know, when I say I poorly executed race, I know when I execute smoothly,” she said.

“I think my first five hurdles weren’t it, but I was able to get myself together and regroup and do what I needed to do and I did just that’’.

She dedicated her latest gold medal to God, her support system which includes her family, supporters, and her Jamaican coach, Lacena Golding Clarke under whom she has been training since 2016.

The 25-year-old has been in blistering form in the past year, breaking the African 100 meters hurdles record three times in the past 10 months.