Nigeria’s Women’s 4×100 meters quartet have set a new Nigerian and African records at 2022 World Athletics Championships in Oregon.
In the women’s 4×100 meters relay final, Nigeria’s squad of Joy Udo-Gabriel, Favour Ofili, Rosemary Chukwuma and Grace Nwokocha ran a spectacular race to set a new African and Nigerian Record of 42.22 seconds to finish 4th on the penultimate day of the World Championships.
Usoro Ruth has become the first Nigerian (male or female) to compete in both the Triple Jump and Long Jump events at the 2022 World Athletics Championships.
Team Nigeria has emerged overall winner at the 11th Africa Armwrestling Championships which held at the Indoor Sports Hall of National Stadium, Surulere in Lagos.
Team Nigeria won 27 gold, 27 silver and 22 bronze medals at the three-day championship.
Cameroon, Togo, Benin, Madagascar, Senegal, Cote dI’Voire, Guinea Conakry, Somalia and Niger were among other countries that took part in the competition.
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Ese Brume has become the first African to win two long jump World Championships medals At the 2022 World Athletics Championships.
On the final day of the 2022 World Championships in Oregon, Nigeria’s Ese Brume leapt into the history books to become the first African (male or female) to claim two Long Jump medals at the World Championships after winning Silver with a Season’s Best (SB) of 7.02 meters in the final of her event.
Tobi Amusan has won Africa’s first ever 100 meters Hurdles World Championships Gold Medal at the 2022 World Athletics Championships.
Tobi Amusan on the last day of the 2022 World Athletics Championships in Oregon became Africa’s first ever GOLD medallist in the women’s 100 meters Hurdles.
For the second consecutive time on the day, she crosses the line in first place finish with a remarkable 12.06 seconds (+2.5m/s), which would have been her second World Record (WR) of the evening but for the excess wind.
Tobi Amusan has become Nigeria’s first ever World Record (WR) holder in Track and Field history at the 2022 World Athletics Championships.
Tobi erased Kendra Harrison’s former 100m Hurdles WR of 12.20 seconds set in 2016 and replacing it with an astonishing 12.12s to win the first semifinal race in the event on the last day of the 2022 World Athletics Championships in Oregon.
Asisat Lamina Oshoala has been named the Confederation of African Football (CAF) 2022 African Footballer of the Year for a record fifth time (in the women category).
She received the award at the CAF ceremony held in Rabat, Morrocco on 21 July, 2022.
She is the first ever player to win five African footballer of the year award (2014, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2022).