A technical report of the recent Niger Delta Games has revealed that 13 girls and four boys at the competition in Benin City achieved qualifying results for this year’s World Junior U-20 Championship in the United States of America.
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Details of the outstanding athletes from the competition were provided by the Games’ technical director and former national team men’s quarter-mile sensation, Enefiok Udo-Obong, Sports247 reports.
Udo-Obong made his observations officially in an interim technical report that has been submitted to the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN), National Sports Commission (NSC) and global body, World Athletics.
The most exciting results were enacted in the girls’100m, with the qualification of four athletes – Ejiro Peter (11.58s), Tejiri Ugoh Praise (11.76s), Azeez Zainab (11.73s), and Victory Imoisemen Azobudi (11.78s).
There were also two outstanding results in the boys’ 100m, as the duo of Chibueze Osama (10.42s) and Godswill Sunday (10.44s), both from Delta State, each got times faster than the qualifying standard of 10.50s.
In the 200m, three girls – Ejiro Peter (23.66s), Tejiri Ugoh Praise (23.75s) and Faith Chukwuma (24.02s) – surpassed world standard of 24.35s; while a single boy, Bright Gift from Akwa Ibom matched the qualifying time of 21.25s.
Oseiwe Salami Ahusimenre of Edo State secured a spot in the boys’ 400m hurdles with 51.75s, beating the benchmark of 55s; while Mary Innocent of Delta State got the girls’ 400m hurdles with 59.87s, beating the standard of 1:00.75s.
Six girls – Okereke Treasure (52.50s), Jacinter Andrew (53.83s), Siviana Ossai (53.85s), Odot Udo (54.49s), Iyanuoluwa Aderemi (54.95s), and Faith Ezechukwu (55.19s) – scaled the 400m category.
