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Asia’s fastest man, Nigerian Femi Ogunode Reveals why he dumped Nigeria…

Asia’s Fatest sprinter, Femi Ogunode

The year 2015 has been quite eventful in athletics and one of the names that rang the bells in the course of the year was Femi Ogunode, an athlete of Nigerian origin who now competes for Qatar. Ogunode, now dubbed Asia’s fastest man, was also voted athlete of the year from the largest continent in the world.

However, not many people know that Ogunode has tried…

AFN needs to change their focus -Ogunode

Femi Ogunode…want new stars to emerge from his roots

*I am happy giving back to Nigeria

Asia’s fastest man, Femi Ogunode, has declared that he has nothing against Nigeria even though he now competes actively in the red colours of oil-rich Qatar.

Recently in Akure, Ondo State, Ogunode through his Foundation organised an Athletics Challenge which gave a platform for youngsters across the country to…

Meet the Nigerian, FEMI OGUNODE – the FASTEST MAN in Asia….

Asia’s fastest man, is a multiple-medal winning Nigerian-born Qatari sprint athlete who competes internationally for Qatar. This Ondo State born natural athlete, of Akoko extraction, started his sporting career as a boxer before switching to football and finally athletics in 2006.

His maiden competition as an athlete was at the Obafemi Awolowo U-18 Championship in Ibadan, Nigeria where he won…

100m records: Three Nigerians ruling Africa, Asia and Europe

Qatar’s Femi Ogunode stands by his race time after setting a games record in winning the men’s 100 meters final at the 17th Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea, Sunday, Sept. 28, 2014. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

History was made at last year’s Asian games in South Korea when a Nigerian, Femi Ogunode, set the new Asian record thereby spreading the record to Asia as two different Nigerian-born track…

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Beaten sprinters say Asian sub-10 100m a long way off

INCHEON, Sept 29:

The prospect of an Asian-born athlete breaking the 10-second barrier for the 100 metres is still a long way off, two top sprinters said.

China’s Su Bingtian and Kei Takase admitted they had a lot of work to do to reach the landmark, after losing the Asian Games sprint final to Qatar’s Nigeria-born Femi Ogunode.

Su’s time of 10.10 was the second quickest by an Asia-born athlete in 2014 but it was only enough for silver.

Ogunode’s 9.93 took 0.02 seconds off the old Asian record — also set by a Nigerian-turned-Qatari, Samuel Francis.

Su, who has run a 10.06 sec admitted he felt off the pace.

“To run 100m under 10 seconds is a goal many athletes in China are striving for,” Su said.

“But my training and technique aren’t good enough yet and I need to do a lot better.”

China and Japan once dominated Asian sprinting, but their athletes are struggling to match Qatar’s African imports.

Takase, who has run 10.02 but could only manage 10.15 for bronze in the Asiad final on Sunday, said the problem was partly mental.

“I have always strived to go below 10 seconds in the 100m,” he said.

“For me to succeed with that goal I need to train harder — both body and mind — to improve my times.”

There had been high hopes that China’s Zhang Peimeng, who has run a 10.00, could deliver, but he struggled to find his rhythm in Incheon and could only muster 10.18.