{"id":81766,"date":"2026-01-17T11:25:49","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T11:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=81766"},"modified":"2026-01-17T11:25:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T11:25:49","slug":"ogunmokun-shatters-10-year-500m-national-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/01\/17\/ogunmokun-shatters-10-year-500m-national-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Ogunmokun Shatters 10-Year 500m National Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Samuel Adeola\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Brittany Ogunmokun made history on Friday by breaking Nigeria\u2019s women\u2019s 500m national record at the NYC Gotham Cup 2026 in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The 35-year-old clocked 1:10.00 to win silver in her season opener, improving on the previous record of 1:11.49 set by Regina George in 2016 and ending a 10-year wait for a new mark.<\/p>\n<p>Ogunmokun finished behind American Leah Anderson, who won the race in 1:09.58, but delivered a standout performance indoors in New York.<\/p>\n<p>The time also shattered Ogunmokun\u2019s personal best of 1:12.62 set in 2009 and places her top of Nigeria\u2019s all-time 500m list, ahead of Jennifer Adaeze Edobi\u2019s 1:13.66 recorded in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The record adds to Ogunmokun\u2019s achievements and signals a strong start to her 2026 season after representing Nigeria at the 2024 African Games in Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Nigeria also recorded success in the United States as Joshua Caleb won the men\u2019s 60m at the LSU Purple Tiger Invitational, clocking 6.67 seconds to finish ahead of Jaiden Reid (6.74s).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola\u00a0 Brittany Ogunmokun made history on Friday by breaking Nigeria\u2019s women\u2019s 500m national record at the NYC Gotham Cup 2026 in the United States. The 35-year-old clocked 1:10.00 to win silver in her season opener, improving on the previous record of 1:11.49 set by Regina George in 2016 and ending a 10-year wait [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":81767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,175],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-81766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81768,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81766\/revisions\/81768"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}