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| Nationality | Nigerian | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 17 April 2004 | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||
| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
| Event | Long jump | ||||||||||||||
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| Personal best | Long jump 8.16 m (2024) | ||||||||||||||
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Charles Edward Godfred (born 17 April 2004) is a Nigerian long jumper. He was African under-20 champion in 2023, and winner of the Nigerian Athletics Championships in 2024 and 2025. [1]
He won the African U20 Athletics Championships in 2023 in Ndola, Zambia, with a jump of 7.86 metres. [2] That year, he also ran a 100 metres time of 10.96 seconds (+0.2 m/s wind) and finished third in the 100 metres at the 3rd African Golden League meet in Abuja and signed-up to attend the University of Minnesota in the United States. [3]
Competing for the University of Minnesota in 2024, he placed sixth at the at the 2024 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Eugene, Oregon in June, with a jump of 7.90 metres. [4] He was the winner of the Nigerian Olympic Trials in Benin City later in June 2024, making a personal best jump of 8.16 metres, a distance which was the furthest by a Nigerian since Stanley Gbagbeke in 2012, and moved him to seventh on the Nigerian all-time list. [5] [6]
In March 2025, he jumped 7.93 metres to win the men’s long jump at the Arizona Spring Break Fiesta. [7] In May, he won the Big Ten Conference in Eugene, Oregon with a jump of 8.05 metres. [8] Godfred finished fourth at the 2025 NCAA Outdoor Championships in June in Eugene, Oregon, the highest finish in the event in the Minnesota Gophers program history. [9]
In 2025, he retained his national title at the Nigerian Athletics Championships in Abeokuta with a jump of 7.95 metres. [10] He was selected for the Nigerian team for the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan. [11]
