Nigerian track queen and 100-metre hurdles world record holder Tobi Amusan raced to victory at the Silesia Diamond League in Poland on Sunday. The 26-year-old, who recently retained her national title at the Athletics Federation of Nigeria's National trials earlier this month, finished ahead of former 100-metre hurdles world record holder Kendra Harrison with a time of 12.34 seconds. Amusan, who finished with the second-best time...
Nigeria have been stripped of their gold medal in the women's 4x100m relay race at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. The decision was made after the disqualification of Nzubechi Grace Nwokocha who was guilty of doping by the Commonwealth Games Federation Court. In August 2022, Nwokocha took the anchor leg for Team Nigeria as they set a new African record of 42.10 seconds to win...
South African track superstar and 800m double Olympic gold medallist Caster Semenya won an appeal in a case against track and field testosterone levels regulation in female athletics on Tuesday. The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg, France, ruled in favor of the 32-year-old, who was born as an intersex individual with differences in sexual development (DSD), stating that she had previously been discriminated...
The first continental Free-to-Air (FTA) sports channel in Africa, Afrosport TV has rolled out plans to bring good quality sports content to millions of sports enthusiasts across Nigeria starting from this July. Afrosport TV has been awarded the rights to broadcast the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup from July 20 to August 20, the World Athletics Championships from August 19 to August 27 and La Liga...
It was an eventful two-day of track and field events at the 2023 Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) national trials for the upcoming 2023 World Athletics Championship in Budapest. The athletics meeting took place at the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium in Benin City with foreign-based stars making the trip to Edo State this week. Majority of the track events took place on Wednesday while field events followed...
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