Team Nigeria ensured four of its relay teams will be on the plane to this summer’s Olympic Games in Paris after the men’s and women’s 4x100m relay teams secured automatic qualification on Sunday. The country’s 4x400m men’s and mixed relay teams got their tickets to the Games earlier on Saturday, with the 4x100m teams having to wait a day after in the repechage races. The quartet...
Team Nigeria rounded up a fruitful day at the University of Ghana Legon Stadium by winning two more gold medals in the men’s and women’s 4x100m relay events at the ongoing 13th African Games in Accra on Wednesday. In the women’s event, world record holder Tobi Amusan, who won a gold medal earlier in the women’s 100m hurdles event, teamed up with the trio of Justina...
The Athletics Federation of Nigeria has confirmed the participation of world record holder in the women's 100m hurdles, Tobi Amusan at the 2023 African Games. Nigeria’s athletics body disclosed that 49 athletes including Amusan will fly the country's flag in 25 athletics events. Other athletes that made the cut include women’s long jump stars Ese Brume and Ruth Usoro, Nigeria’s fastest man Usheoritse Itsekiri, David Akintola...
Team Nigeria continued their lacklustre performance at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest with woeful results in 4x100m relay events on Friday. Nigeria had representatives in the men and women's categories but they both failed to qualify into the final stage to compete for medals. The quartet of Favour Ashe, Seye Ogunlewe, Usheoritse Itsekiri and Alaba Akintola had a decent race in the men's category...
The Nigerian duo of Favour Ofili and Alaba Akintola have crashed out of the 200-meter women’s and men’s events at the ongoing World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary. The 20-year-old African indoor record holder, Ofili, finished sixth in Heat 3 of the semifinals on Thursday evening to put an end to her participation in the event. Akintola, on the other hand, finished seventh in Heat 2...
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