Nigerian former sprinter and erstwhile men’s national 100m record holder, Olusoji Adetokunbo Fasuba, may have opted for his daughter, Annabelle, to compete for Great Britain.
Sports245 gathered that, rather than urge his daughter to follow his footsteps in donning Nigeria’s colours on the athletics track, Fasuba is ready to allow her to commit her international future to Britain.
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This has become apparent in recent publications that list Annabelle Fasuba as ‘a very promising British athlete,’ with rave reviews already tipping her to win Olympic Games medals for her country of birth.
Fasuba, who joined Britain’s Royal Navy in 2011, has complained in recent years about neglect by the Athletic Federation of Nigeria (AFN) and alleged that he is being owed some outstanding payments.
It is being speculated that his feeling of disappointment with athletics officials in his fatherland might have accounted for his decision to allow Annabelle run for England instead of representing Nigeria.
Consequently, British track gurus are already anticipating a rosy future for Annabelle Fasuba, who lives in Plymouth, and is currently rated high among the fastest female teenage 100m runners in the country.
The spotlight opened further for her in June 2025, when she ran the fastest 200m for a British girl aged 15 or under since 1989, with her 24.02sec behind only Diane Smith and Olympic 400m bronze medallist, Katharine Merry.
Furthermore, her electronic-timed 100m personal best of 11.79 is just over a quarter of a second outside the qualifying time for the last Commonwealth Games and is fifth best for a British under-15 athlete.
Annabelle’s coach, Neal Edwards, told BBC Sport: “Those times at that age are phenomenal. What’s even more amazing is that she only started just over 12 months ago.
“So, a lot of the work we’ve done is just technical work; we haven’t done any really hard training, we haven’t pushed her, we haven’t really stretched her that much, it’s just been about technique.”
Those are highly promising words for the up-and-coming lass, whose father was World Indoor 60m champion in 2008, won Olympic bronze in the 4x100m relay in 2004 and was a Commonwealth Games silver medallist in 2006.
His personal best over 100m of 9.85, which he set in May 2006, was the African record until South Africa’s Akani Simbine broke it in July 2021, while her mother, Ngozi Fasuba, ran in the 4x400m relay at the Athens 2004 Olympics.
Sports245 reports further that Annabelle’s personal best 100m time of 11.51secs is a new British U15 record, which she achieved at the BFTTA Open in Lee Valley on August 30, 2025.
The youngster also holds a Championship Record of 11.73s from the National U15 Championships in the same year, while her 200m PB of 23.72s also equalled Britain’s U15 record.
