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...
National champion Olayinka Olajide has claimed Nigeria's first medal in athletics at the ongoing 13th African Games after finishing third in the women’s 100-metre final on Tuesday. Olajide, participating in her first senior international tournament for Nigeria, claimed the Bronze medal with a time of 11.55 seconds, to become the first woman in over a decade to clinch a podium finish at the Games. https://twitter.com/MakingOfChamps/status/1770137737049391454?t=sQFj9WS-pfP9NZJDYs6hjQ&s=19 The...
Team Nigeria’s representatives were in action on Monday as the athletic events kicked off in the ongoing 13th African Games in Accra, Ghana. Three athletes, each in the men’s and women’s categories, were in action for Nigeria in the heats of the 100m events, with all six progressing to the semi-finals. Into the semifinals - all three Naija???????? representatives in the women's 100m won their respective...
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