By: Olayinka Ganiyu
Nigeria’s sprint stars Tobi Amusan and Rosemary Chukwuma delivered a golden double for Team Nigeria on the second day of the 2026 African Senior Athletics Championships in Accra, Ghana.
World record holder Amusan dominated the 100m hurdles to claim gold and cement her continued reign over the event, while Chukwuma took the women’s 100m title at the University of Ghana Sports Stadium on Wednesday.
The victory gave Amusan her third African 100m hurdles gold, having previously triumphed in Asaba in 2018 and Mauritius in 2022. It is also her sixth gold across all events in the championship’s history. The US-based athlete surged clear of the field midway through the race to win convincingly, with compatriot Adaobi Tabugbo completing a partial Nigerian podium by taking bronze.
Chukwuma, meanwhile, savoured a landmark moment of her own. The sprinter claimed her first ever gold at the senior championships, edging out Cameroon’s Heverge Etame Kole and Liberia’s Thelma Davies to take the women’s 100m crown. The win extends Nigeria’s long dominance of the event and places Chukwuma in rare company as she now joins an elite group of athletes to have won the 100m sprint at youth, junior, and senior level on the African continent, having claimed youth gold in 2018 and junior gold at Abidjan in 2019.
The two golds were Nigeria’s first of the championships and arrived on its second day of competition. Nigeria’s overall medal tally has risen to four, also including a silver and a bronze.
The championships run from 12 to 17 May at the University of Ghana Sports Complex.
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