About Ese Brume
Ese Brume MON (born 20 January 1996) is a Nigerian athlete who specializes in the long jump. She is the current Commonwealth champion and a three-time African senior champion and holds a personal best of 7.17 m (23 ft 6+1⁄4 in) She currently holds the Commonwealth Games record, African junior record and African record in the event. She is a two-time medalist at the world athletics championship, an Olympic bronze medalist and a five-time African junior champion in athletics. She is the only athlete to win three consecutive long jump titles at the African Championships in Athletics as well as the first African to win two long jump medals at the World Athletics Championships Brume was the long jump gold medalist at the 2013 African Junior Athletics Championships, 2014 Commonwealth Games, 2014 African Senior Athletics Championships and 2015 African Junior Athletics Championships. She also represented Nigeria at the World Junior Championships in Athletics in 2014. Brume represented Nigeria at the 2016 Olympic Games, where she placed 5th in the long jump final with a leap of 6.81m Brume won the bronze medal in the long jump event at the 2019 World Athletics Championships in Doha, Qatar, with a jump of 6.91 m and at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, with a jump of 6.97 m. In 2022, she became the first African woman in history to jump four legal marks over 7.00m She also won the 18th National Sports Festival in Lagos. She was one of the most successful athletes at the 2013 African Junior Athletics Championships: she won the long jump title, took silver in the triple jump, and was part of Nigeria's winning 4×100 meters relay team. In May 2014, she ran a 100 m best of 11.84 seconds, then followed this with a long jump best and new African junior record of 6.60 m (21 ft 7+3⁄4 in) to win at the Warri Relays. She improved to 6.68 m (21 ft 10+3⁄4 in) at the Nigerian Championships to win her first national title. She is the current Commonwealth champion and a three-time African senior champion and holds a personal best of 7.17 m She currently holds the Commonwealth Games record, African junior record and African record in the event.
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