Early tomorrow morning—so early most of us will only read about it later—Ifeanyi Otuonye will try to jump a long way and straight on to the podium and into the history books.
The long jump specialist from Turks and Caicos is actually an old pro at international competition. This is his second turn at the Commonwealth Games already. He participated in the 2014 edition in Glasgow where he leaped 7.47m, a new Turks and Caicos national record that was neverthless not quite good enough for the finals back then.
He’s since participated in the World Championships in 2015 and 2017, and along the way, he won the long jump gold medal at the NACAC Under-23 Championships in 2016, breaking his own TCI national record with a jump of 7.