{"id":207257,"date":"2025-09-15T23:22:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T21:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-kanyisola-ajayi-ends-nigerias-18-year-absence-in-100m-final-places-sixth\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T23:22:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T21:22:08","slug":"nigeria-kanyisola-ajayi-ends-nigerias-18-year-absence-in-100m-final-places-sixth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-kanyisola-ajayi-ends-nigerias-18-year-absence-in-100m-final-places-sixth\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Kanyisola Ajayi Ends Nigeria&#8217;s 18-Year Absence in 100m Final, Places Sixth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"11\"><strong>*Amusan carries Nigeria&#8217;s hope for podium placement in today&#8217;s 100m hurdles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">Kanyinsola Ajayi, 21, ended Nigeria&#8217;s 18 years wait to feature in the final of the men&#8217;s 100m event of the World Athletics Championship on Sunday evening in Tokyo, Japan but failed to get to the podium in the race won by Jamaica&#8217;s Oblique Seville.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">Seville stormed to the title in a new Persona Best (PB) of 9.77secs while another Jamaican, Kishane Thompson made it 1-2 in 9.82. America&#8217;s Paris Olympic Games champion, Noah&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509150514.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*Amusan carries Nigeria&#8217;s hope for podium placement in today&#8217;s 100m hurdles Kanyinsola Ajayi, 21, ended Nigeria&#8217;s 18 years wait to feature in the final of the men&#8217;s 100m event of the World Athletics Championship on Sunday evening in Tokyo, Japan but failed to get to the podium in the race won by Jamaica&#8217;s Oblique Seville. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":207258,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[22499,27298,11086,258,256,29079,7933,6038,52350,257,4687,393,5761,8393,14717,254],"class_list":["post-207257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-100m","tag-18year","tag-absence","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ajayi","tag-ends","tag-final","tag-kanyisola","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nigerias","tag-places","tag-sixth","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}