Umar Sadiq has emerged Unión Deportiva Almería Player of the Season for 2021/2022, as the club gains promotion to the Primera División in Spain (La Liga).
Sadiq capped off a fine season with 18 goals and 9 assists in the Segunda Division. He finished the season with the most goal contributions in the league. He also netted once in the Copa Del Rey.
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Ime Udoka and his Boston Celtics team defied the odds as they became the first team in franchise history since 1974 to win a Game 7 on the road, defeating the Miami Heat 100-96 at FTX Arena.
The dramatic victory secured a spot in the NBA Finals for Boston for the first time since 2010, a storybook moment for the franchise that was under .500 at the midway point of the regular season.
Ime is in his first season as head Coach in the NBA and they face Golden State Warriors for the NBA finals. He becomes the first Nigerian to coach a team to the NBA finals.
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Egypt’s ENPPI Club and Nigeria’s NSCDC have emerged winners of the ITTF 2022 African Club Championships’ in the men and women categories respectively.
The championship finalized on on May 25, 2022, is one of the three events billed for the table tennis festival at the Molade Okoya-Thomas Hall of Teslim Balogun Stadium.
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Chinecherem Nnamdi Prosper has set new records in the men’s javelin throw at the 2022 NCAA West Regionals with a 81.22 meters throw.
His throw sets a new school record as well as a new national record (NR) as he broke Pius Bazighe’s previous NR set in 1999, improving it by 14 cm.
Ese Brume has jumped 6.90 meters (3.5) to win the women’s long jump event at the Puerto Rico International Classic 2022.
She also recorded jumps of 6.81 meters (2.1) and a season best of 6.78 meters while finishing ahead of Quanesha Burks who jumped 6.65 meters (1.3) and Tiffany Flynn with 6.54 meters (0.7).
The Puerto Rico International Athletics Classic is a World Athletics Continental Tour Silver meeting, which held at the Francisco Montaner Stadium in Ponce.
Esther Isa has leapt a personal best (PB) of 6.39 meters (0.7) to win the women’s long jump at the C-USA Outdoor Championships in San Antonio, Texas.
Her personal best set a stadium record on her sixth and final jump.
She finished ahead of Ingeborg Gruenwald who took 2nd with 6.35 meters and Marquesha Myers at 6.21 meters for 3rd.
She won another gold medal in stadium-record setting fashion as she jumped a personal best 13.37 meters (43-10.50) in the triple jump for the win.
Esther Isa won both the triple jump and long jump at this year’s outdoor championships.
21-year-old Nzubechi Grace Nwokocha has won the 100 and 200 meters race events at the 2022 Big South Championships in High Point, N.C.
The NC A & T freshman, won the 100 meters event in 11.13 seconds (2.8) and doubling up with a Meet Record (MR) of 22.75 seconds.
In the 100 meters, she finished ahead of her teammate Symone Darius who clocked a time of 11.25 seconds and Amira Aduma in 11.59 seconds.