Athletics
24 Feb 2024
A total of 18 Nigerian track and field athletes based in the United States of America are expected to join Nigeria’s camp in Accra, Ghana, for the 2024 Africa Games scheduled to hold in three Ghanaian cities next month.
23 Feb 2024
Top athletes and dignitaries joined hundreds of mourners at the funeral on Friday of Kenya's world marathon record-holder Kelvin Kiptum in the nation's athletics heartland where he was born, trained and died.
23 Feb 2024
The Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) has invited 33 athletes (17 men and 16 women) to camp ahead of the 13th African Games scheduled to hold in three Ghanaian cities of Accra, Cape Coast and Kumasi, next month.
21 Feb 2024
A day after he was ejected from the 100m final due to a false start, rave of the moment, sprinter Consider Ekanem, won the men’s 200m of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) African Games trials, which ended at the Stephen Keshi Stadium, Asaba, yesterday.
20 Feb 2024
One of the biggest upsets of the ongoing 2024 Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) national trials for the Africa Games in Asaba was recorded in the women’s 400m final yesterday.
18 Feb 2024
Race favorite, Consider Ekanem, disappointed athletics fans, who came to watch him run at the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) African Games National Trials, yesterday, in Asaba, as he was ejected from men’s 100m final because of false start.
18 Feb 2024
The Nigerian Medical Association is set to stage the 7th edition of the NMA Games. It will begin tomorrow and end on Saturday, February 24, at the University of Lagos Sports complex as well as the Ikeja Golf Course.
18 Feb 2024
MTN ’Making Of Champions, Champs Season Two competition, flagged off at the Stephen Keshi Stadium, Asaba, Delta State, with over 1000 athletes from 100 public and private schools students in various categories registered in the five days athletic events.
17 Feb 2024
President of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN), Chief Tonobok Okowa, has said that this year’s National Trials to select athletes that will fly the nation’s flag at the Africa Games in Ghana could spring some surprises.
17 Feb 2024
Former two-time African 100m Champion and national record holder, Seun Ogunkoya, seems to have reinvented himself with up and coming sprinter Consider Ekanem.
15 Feb 2024
Nigeria’s best athletes are expected to hit Asaba on February 16 for the Athletics Federation of Nigeria’s (AFN) Making of Champions (MoC) trials billed to hold at the Stephen Keshi Stadium from February 17 to 20, 2024.
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