Divine Oduduru is in the form of his life, racing to yet another Personal Best (PB) at the Texas Tech Open meet to win the men’s 60m with a time of 6.58s.
Two weeks ago, Oduduru ran an Indoor 200m PB, breaking his school’s 20-year old record to run a then World Lead of 20.49s before South Africa’s Ncincihli Titi surpassed him with a time of 20.45s
Oduduru showed signs of things to come when he comfortably won heat 4 in 6.64s to advance to the finals with one of the Top 8 times, beating his previous PB of 6.66s which he ran last month at the Corky classic.
He was never in danger of losing the race, bolting from the blocks to break Julius Walker’s 6.63s record for Texas tech, and running below the 6.60s mark for the first time in his career.
🔥🔥🔥DIVINE ODUDURU🔥🔥🔥
A new #TexasTech record 60-meter dash time of 6️⃣.5️⃣8️⃣️⃣ ‼️ #WreckEm pic.twitter.com/d0nImOsesI
— TTU Track & Field/XC (@TTU_TF_XC) February 3, 2018
Such was Oduduru’s margin of victory that Marcus Parker finished 2nd in 6.74s with Chris Jefferson 3rd in 6.75s.
With Oduduru’s time, he is now the 3rd fastest in the NCAA this year, and his time ranks him in 11th place in the world alongside Yunier Perez and Ojie Edoborun.
Can he one day match Deji Aliu’s long standing Nigerian Record of 6.48s set 19 years ago in France?
