Tosin oke biography of donald

Athletics Competitor Oct 1 Nigeria.

What a journey so far!

Tosin Oke born 1 October in London, England is a Nigerian track and field athlete, who competes in the triple jump. Born a dual national, he initially competed for Great Britain. He set the current UK junior indoor record and was 1 cm shy of the outdoor junior record. After multiple indoor and outdoor UK titles, he later switched to compete for Nigeria.

At the Summer Olympics Oke finished seventh in the triple jump final, the best Nigerian result of the Games. In August he finally set a new personal best, jumping a World Championships B standard of In the season, Tosin jumped a series of personal bests indoors, finishing with Outdoors he opened up with a short approach competition at the Loughborough international, and in his second competition broke the British Athletics League record with In his finest season so far, he went on to win the African Championships in Nairobi, Kenya with a personal best jump of Oke finished the year ranked 9th in the world.

Due to the long season, Tosin decided to give the indoor circuit a miss. He opened up outdoors in Daegu with a modest Needless to say, with multiple injuries, the World Championships in Daegu was not a happy hunting ground; he jumped Two weeks later, a heavily strapped up Oke, was able to rise to the occasion for his country, and jump a last gasp