NIGERIA’S Ese Brume will be one of the global athletics medallists and major stars who will take part in the Gaborone Golden Grand Prix in Botswana next week.
The Continental Gold Tour meeting will be held in the capital city of Botswana on April 29.
Brume, the world indoor and outdoor silver medallist, will lead the women’s long jump field, the organisers of the event announced today.
The Tokyo 2020 Olympics bronze medallist and Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth champion holds the women’s long jump African record at 7.17m.
She will take on African champion Marthe Koala of Burkina Faso and German Olympian Maryse Luzolo at the event.
Brume joins the previously announced stars Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce of Jamaica, who is contesting the 100m, and flamboyant Sha’Carri Richardson of the United States of America, who will compete in the 200m.
The men’s 100m field will parade five stars with sub-10-second personal bests and features world silver medallist Marvin Bracy.
The American sprinter earned world indoor silver in 2014 and reached the world indoor podium again in 2022, clocking a 60m PB of 6.44s. Outdoors, he has a 100m PB of 9.85s and last year he finished in the top two in all but one of his 100m races.
African record holder at 9.77s, Kenya’s Ferdinand Omanyala is the fastest man in the field. He won the African and Commonwealth 100m titles last year.
World and Olympic 200m silver medallist Kenny Bednarek will run in the 100m, where the American has an impressive PB of 9.89s.
Canada’s world 4x100m champion Aaron Brown is also in the field. The multiple world and Olympic 100m and 200m finalist has a PB of 9.96s for the shorter distance.
Liberian record holder Emmanuel Matadi and triple world U-20 medallist Benji Richardson of South Africa will also race at the star-studded meeting.
