Team Nigeria will return from Douala, Cameroon, venue of the just concluded 23rd African Senior Athletics Championships today.
The team won one more gold and a silver medal on the final day to finish third behind South Africa and Kenya on the medals table.
“By my calculation, we lost four gold medals due to the setback we encountered here,” Ojokolo, who is a member of the technical crew, told The Guardian, yesterday. On the final day, the women’s 4x400m relay grabbed a gold in a time of 3:27.31 seconds ahead of Botswana and Zambia. But it was not enough to qualify them for the Olympics in Paris.Meanwhile, U.S.-based AFN Performance Director, Victor Okorie, has praised the athletes, coaches and other officials for displaying the ‘true’ Nigerian spirit in Douala.
Among the athletes, who defended their titles in Douala is Chukwuebuka Enekwechi, who won the men’s Shot Put event. He won the title at Asaba 2018 and retained it in Mauritius 2022.
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