Ese Brume MON (born 20 January 1996) is a

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athlete who specializes in the

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. She is the current commonwealth champion and a three-time African senior champion in the long Jump and holds a personal best of She currently holds the commonwealth games record, African junior record and African record in the event. She's a two-time medalist at the world athletics championship, an Olympic bronze medalist and also a five-time African junior champion in athletics. She is also the only athlete to win three consecutive Long Jump titles at the

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as well as the first African to win two Long Jump medals at the

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Brume was the long jump gold medalist at the

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, 2014 Commonwealth Games, 2014 African Senior Athletics Championships and

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. She also represented Nigeria at the

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in 2014. Brume represented Nigeria at the

2016 Olympic Games ) , nations = 207 (including IOA and EOR teams) , athletes = 11,238 , events = 306 in 28 sports (41 disciplines) , opening = 5 August 2016 , closing = 21 August 2016 , opened_by = Vice President Michel Temer , cauldron = Vanderlei Cordeiro d ...

, 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

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in Doha, with a jump of 6.91 m and at the

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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

Career

Born in

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, Delta State, Brume first emerged at the national level at the 2012 Nigerian Athletics Championships with former junior athletes Dakolo Emmanuel and Fabian Edoki. She placed sixth in the long jump, clearing over six meters. She also won the 18th National Sports Festival in Lagos.Akpodonor, Gowon (1 August 2014)
Brume… A Junior Athlete With A Big Heart
. ''Nigerian Guardian''. Retrieved on 3 August 2014. The following year she set a personal best of to place second nationally, behind

Blessing Okagbare Blessing Oghnewresem Okagbare-Otegheri (born 9 October 1988) is a former Nigerian track and field athlete who specialized in Long jump and sprints. She is an Olympic and World Championships medalist in the long jump, and a world medalist in th ...

.Ese Brume
Tilastopaja. Retrieved on 3 August 2014. She was one of the most successful athletes at the

: she won the long jump title, took silver in the

triple jump The triple jump, sometimes referred to as the hop, step and jump or the hop, skip and jump, is a track and field event, similar to the long jump. As a group, the two events are referred to as the "horizontal jumps". The competitor runs down th ...

, and was part of Nigeria's winning 4×100 meters relay team. She also placed fourth individually in the

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. Brume successfully defended her long jump title at the next edition of the African Junior Athletics Championships in Addis Ababa. This time, she was even more successful as she added the triple jump and 4 x 100 m relay title, and a bronze medal in the individual 100 meters to her collection. 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 to win at the Warri Relays. She improved to at the Nigerian Championships to win her first national title. She was chosen for the discipline at the

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but, having flown to Eugene, Oregon just a day before competing, she performed poorly and was bottom of the qualifying. The Nigerian junior women's relay team also did not fare well, being eliminated in qualifying. Just five days later, she represented

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at the 2014 Commonwealth Games. Blessing Okagbare opted to compete in the sprints, so Brume was Nigeria's sole entrant for the event. The 18-year-old excelled in the Commonwealth Games long jump, clearing in the final to win the gold medal. Brume dedicated her victory to

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, Delta State's governor who invested in

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infrastructure and support in the region. Okagbare, who won a Commonwealth sprint double, was also a product of the system, and Brume stated that she was inspired by the older athlete's achievements. As a result of her own medal feats, Brume was given an

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to study in the

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, with local government support.

2016

Having already secured the qualification standard for the

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with her personal record jump in June 2016 at the Akure Golden League, Brume headed to

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for the

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as the African leader in her event. She successfully defended her title from the previous championships. Brume qualified for the Rio Olympics long jump final as the third-best athlete in her pool. This placed her in sixth position going into the final of the event. She eventually ended the competition in fifth place, leaping a distance of 6.81 meters which was just 2 centimeters shy of her personal record, which she had set earlier in the year.

2018

Brume became a double Turkish Universities champion at the Turkey Koç Fest Universities Sports Games, representing her university,

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.EMU’s Olympic Athlete Becomes Double Turkish Champion
Retrieved on 25 April 2019. She set a meeting record, and African lead of 6.82 m at the first leg of the 2018 World Challenge series in Kingston, Jamaica. This mark remained the best jump by an African athlete until the

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. There, she increased her African lean by a centimeter to win her third consecutive African senior title. She then represented Africa at the Ostrava Continental Cup, where she placed fourth. 2018 also saw Brume defend her title at the 19th Nigerian National Sports Festival in Abuja, in a new festival record of 6.62 meters.

2019

Brume was shortlisted as a nominee in the StarQt Award in the Africa Sportswoman of the Year category. She was the only Nigerian athlete nominated in any category. The event was held in October in

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. She became the

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champion in the Long Jump on 29 August 2019. This was her first African games title. On 24 July 2019, in

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, she improved her personal best to 6.96m despite a very strong headwind (−2.1 m/s). At the Turkish championships in Bursa on 4 August, she broke the 7-meter barrier for the first time in her career surpassing that mark twice in the competition. Her jump of 7.05 m (+ 0.9 m/s) was the second-best African performance in history. On 6 October, she won the bronze medal in the World Championships with a jump of 6.91m. Her medal was Nigeria's only medal at the competition and a first since 2013.

2021

She broke the African Record in the long jump set by

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. At the

, she won a bronze medal in the long jump event. Her medal was Nigeria's only medal in Athletics at the event and the first Athletics medal at the Olympics since 2008.

2022

At the

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, she won a silver medal in the long jump event, Nigeria's only medal in the competition. She also won another silver medal at the 2022 World Athletics Championships, becoming the first African to win two Long Jump medals at the

At the

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, she won gold at the women long jump event and also broke the game record in the event with her 7.00m jump. She holds the new game record after breaking the record of Australia's

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, who previously held the record with her 6.97m jump.

Personal life

In 2021, her younger brother Godson Okeoghene Brume broke the African u-18 100-meter record with 10.13 s. She is close friends with fellow Nigerian athlete

Tobi Amusan Oluwatobiloba Ayomide "Tobi" Amusan (born 23 April 1997) is a Nigerian track and field athlete who specialises in the 100 metres hurdles and also competes as a sprinter. She is the current World, Commonwealth and African champion in the 10 ...

National titles

* Long Jump: 2014, 2016, 2017

Personal bests

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– 11.41 sec ( Bursa 2019) *

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– (Chula Vista, 2021) *

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– (

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2015)

International competition record

Alma Matar She attended

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Brume, Ese Living people 1996 births Sportspeople from Delta State Nigerian female long jumpers Nigerian female sprinters Nigerian female triple jumpers Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Nigeria Athletes (track and field) at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Olympic athletes of Nigeria Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic female long jumpers Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for Nigeria Olympic bronze medalists in athletics (track and field) Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics Athletes (track and field) at the 2019 African Games World Athletics Championships athletes for Nigeria World Athletics Championships medalists African Championships in Athletics winners African Games gold medalists in athletics (track and field) African Games gold medalists for Nigeria World Athletics Indoor Championships medalists 21st-century Nigerian women Medallists at the 2014 Commonwealth Games