Budapest 2023: Brume faces a tough task in the long jump final ditto Ogunlewe and Itshekiri in the 100m semi-final.

 It’s going to be a busy Sunday for Team Nigeria at the ongoing World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary as Our Boys and Girls will be busy on the track and on the field fighting for qualifications to the next stage and for medals.

In the morning session, Chioma Onyekwere is up against the best in the world as she competes to throw the automatic qualifying mark of 64.00 or at least be among the best 12 to qualify for the final.

Onyekwere has a

personal best is 61.98, so her best chance of qualifying for the final is to be among the top 12.

In the women and men 400m Imaobong Nse Uko and Dubem Nwachukwu will be competing to be among the top three in their heats or among the six fastest losers.

400m hurdler Ezekiel Nathaniel is up against the best in the world for a place in the semi-final.

Rosemary Chukwuma is Team Nigeria's only athlete in the women's 100m.

In the afternoon session, Usheoritse Itsekiri and Seye Ogunlewe running in heat one and heat two face a tough task in the quest to cement a place men’s 100m final later in the evening.

Ese Brume also faces a tough field in the final of the women's long jump later in the evening.

A silver medalist in the last edition, Brume is currently ranked number seven in the world.

Standing between her and a medal include Serbia Ivana Vuleta, Spain duo of Fátima Diame and Tessy Ebosele, a Nigerian-born Spanish.

Others in the strong field include Jamaica's Ackelia Smith, Burundi Marthe Koala, Brazil's Leticia Oro Melo, Romania's Alina Rotaru-Kottmann, Germany's Maryse Luzolo, American duo  Tara Davis-Woodhall and Jasmine Moore,  and Italy's Larissa Iapichino the daughter of world and Olympics medalist Fiona May.

Brume will have to be in the best elements to have any realistic chance of winning any colour of medal.