Yaounde: Eseme set to headline Olembe national athletics championship.

According to FECATHLETICS, the competition will bring together dozens of homebased and foreign-based athletes.

The athletes will compete for medals across over a dozen track and field events with focus on among others, bagging national titles and enhances their chances of qualifying for forthcoming major continental and global competitions.

African short distance running trailblazer and Olympian, Emmanuel Eseme, is expected to serve as the poster boy during the two-day meet. 

The 31-year-old who holds the men’s 100m national record in Cameroon, has dominated short distance races in Cameroon since he first shot to the limelight some six years ago.

The 2020 and 2024 Olympic Games sprinter will be expected to compete across the men’s 100m and 200m series of the national multi-event competition.

The athlete will particularly be expected to focus on the 100m series as it will offer the African Games gold medalist a platform to continue his preparations for the forthcoming 2025 World Athletics Championships where he is on the starting block to enter as Cameroon’s lone representative.

The Cameroon national championships will add to the multiple national and global competitions that the La Francophonie Games men’s 100m record holder has competed in in the last couple of months as he braces for the Tokyo showdown.

The athlete has starred and posted world-class results across several meetings of athletics’ global body-sanctioned Diamond League competition. 

Last month, he won two gold medals during the Portuguese national athletics championships after dominating the men’s 100m and 200m series and also posted a brilliant showing in the men’s 4x100. 

Hectic two-day gathering

Apart from Eseme who will sit comfortably as the outright centre of attraction during the event, the two-day championship will assemble dozens other athletes to compete for distinctions. 

The others stars expected are African Games medalist, Nora Monie Atim who competes in discuss throw and shot put and women’s 400m hurdles sensation, Linda Engoulou. 

Per the official program of the competition, athletes will compete in javelin throw, shot put, long jump, triple jump, high jump, discuss throw as well as short and middle-distance hurdles event. 

The opening day of the championship will close with the men and women’s finals of the 100m events.

The races will conclude a hectic day of action that is also programmed to be animated by the finals of the men and women’s 1500 category, the women’s 40om hurdles final and the long jump finals in the men and women’s series.

Day two will round up with the finals of the men and women’s 200m race. The two finals will be two of an overall 16 different finals that will be staged on the closing day, including the 20km walk race featuring both the men and female athletes. 

This article was first published in The Guardian Post Edition No:3526 of Thursday August 07, 2025.