Nigerian  sprinter, Favour Ofili, has raced into track & field history as she sets  a world record in the women’s 150m event with a new 15.85secs (2.0m/s wind gauge) at the 2025 Adidas Atlanta City Games on Saturday evening.

Bahamas’ Olympic champion, Shaunae Miller-Uibo, set the previous 16.23s world record in 2018.

Ofili, the same 22-year-old sprinter who was denied competing in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games 100m event due to non entry of her name for the event she duly qualified for by the Athletic Federation of Nigeria (AFN), became the first woman to dip under 16 secs in the 150m race.

She also became the second Nigerian, male or female  to also hold a world record.

Tobi Amusan became the first Nigerian ever to break a world record when she erased Keni Harrison previous record of 12.20secs to set a new 12.12 secs in one of the semi final races of the 2022 World Championships in Eugene, Oregon, USA.

The Adidas Atlanta City Games yesterday is a unique street-style athletics event held outside traditional stadium settings. It brings both athletes and fans closer.

Also at the event, Nigerian male sprinter, Udodi Onwuzurike, impressed, running a season’s best of 10.20 seconds to finish second in the sprint  heat behind South Africa’s Akani Simbine, who won in 10.13s.

Onwuzurike’s performance was enough to earn him a spot in the final. It was Onwuzurike’s first major feat of the season with barely weeks to the World Championships ahead in Guangzhou, China.