Wednesday, December 25, 2024

Nigeria: 20 Nigerians Jostle for Honours At World Athletics Beneath-20 Championship

Twenty Nigerian observe and subject athletes are amongst over 1,700 athletes from 134 groups/international locations now in Lima for the World Athletics Beneath-20 Championships 2024.

The Information Company of Nigeria (NAN) experiences that the younger athletes are competing on the Estadio Atletico de la Videna between Tuesday and Saturday.

A number of of the taking part athletes will likely be making their worldwide debuts in Lima, whereas for some others, the trail to Peru has gone by means of the Paris Olympic Video games.

The record of Olympians who will compete for age-group honours following the Paris 2024 Video games is certainly lengthy.

It has Bradley Nkoana and Bayanda Walaza, who helped South Africa to the boys’s 4×100 metres silver medal in Paris.

It additionally has Ethiopia’s Sembo Almayew, who completed fifth within the girls’s 3000m steeplechase.

There are additionally on the record the likes of Jamaica’s Alana Reid, who competed within the 4x100m, and Torrie Lewis of Australia, who ran the 200m and 4x100m on the Paris Olympics.

However the Olympians will not be the one ones headlining the occasion within the South American nation’s capital metropolis.

Estonia’s Karmen Bruus (excessive bounce), Uzbekistan’s Sharifa Davronova (triple bounce), Ethiopia’s Medina Eisa (5000m), and Jamaica’s Kerrica Hill (100m hurdles) are an skilled lot.

All of them gained gold medals on the final version of the competitors in Cali in 2022 and are entered to defend their titles this time round.