Nigeria’s Rosemary Chukwuma has been drawn in the women’s 100m heats at the Tokyo 2025 World Athletics Championships, where she will face Great Britain’s Dina Asher-Smith and Jamaica’s Tina Clayton, www.aclsports.com reports.
The 20th edition of the Championships runs from 13–21 September 2025 at the Japan National Stadium.
Chukwuma’s opening race comes on September 13, with other competitors in her heat including Ewa Swoboda (Poland), Rani Rosius (Belgium), Lorène Dorcas Bazolo (Portugal), Fayza Issaka Abdoukerim (Togo), Karolína Maňasová (Czech Republic), and Estelle Short (Cook Islands).
She heads into Tokyo as Nigeria’s sole representative in the women’s 100m, carrying the nation’s hopes of progressing beyond the heats and into the medal rounds taking place just a day later on September 14.
Elsewhere in the event, reigning world champion Sha’Carri Richardson (USA) goes in Heat 3 with Jamaica’s Shericka Jackson, the 2023 world 200m gold medallist. Olympic champion Julien Alfred (Saint Lucia) lines up in Heat 4, while Jamaican legend Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, the only sprinter with five world 100m titles, runs in Heat 7 against Côte d’Ivoire’s Marie-Josée Ta Lou-Smith.
