Nigeria’s Tobi Amusan has lost the final of the 100m hurdles event at the ongoing World Championships in Budapest, Hungary.
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Reigning champion Tobi Amusan won her qualifying heat in the women’s 100 metres hurdles on Tuesday in Budapest to secure a spot in the semi-finals.
Aliu made the appeal in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Friday in Lagos, urging Amusan to put behind her the suspension saga by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU).
Speaking during a courtesy visit by the ITTF team to his office in Lagos on Tuesday, May 24, the Deputy Governor, said the state would continue to support table tennis while assuring that they would be willing to host the world based on the experience of hosting several tournaments in the past.
American Christian Coleman’s dream of adding the 200 meters to the 100 meter world title he won on Saturday has ended.
Double Olympic champion Caster Semenya has lamented the lack of support she believes she has received from other women in sport.
Chidi Okezie, a bronze medalist at the 2018 Confederation of African Athletics, organised Africa Senior Athletics Championships in Asaba, says he hopes to feature at the International Association of Athletics Federation World Championships.
After securing a bid to host the 2019 World Para Powerlifting Championships in Lagos, the Nigeria Para Powerlifting Federation is appealing for sponsors to execute a successful event.
According to reports, Bolt – who retired after winning eight Olympic golds – is attracting interest from the Bundesliga side and has never hidden his desire to play football.
The world’s fastest man brought his glittering career to an end in London at the World Championships and he is now set to embark on a new venture.
The lifelong fan was to make his first appearance since retiring from athletics to line up alongside legends Ryan Giggs and Paul Scholes at Old Trafford on September 2
The 30-year-old bowed out in the worst possible way on Saturday night as he pulled up during the anchor leg of Jamaica’s 4x100m relay effort, with the world’s fastest man inheriting the baton in third place behind eventual winners Great Britain and the United States.
Bolt, having been passed the baton by Yohan Blake, was in third behind Great Britain and the United States, who eventually won gold and silver, but pulled up almost 50m from the line and fell to the track.
The sprint legend grimaced in agony on the final straight as the home team raced ahead during the race at the World Championships in London.
Schippers, who took Olympic silver in Rio behind Jamaica’s Elaine Thompson, retained the title she won in Beijing two years ago
He also said he has no issue showing respect to under-pressure American sprinter Justin Gatlin, after his 100m victory a few days ago.
Even before the Botswana’s withdrawal there was a somewhat subdued atmosphere surrounding the event after Usain Bolt, winner of the last four world and three Olympic titles, had decided before the championships not to take part.
American Gatlin, who has served two suspensions for doping offences, ruined Usain Bolt’s farewell on Saturday by beating the Jamaican sprinter in his final individual race.
The momentum of 26-year-old Bowie’ exemplary dip sent her sprawling onto the track but by the time she recovered enough to look at the big screen she saw that she had won by one hundredth of a second and denied Ta Lou the chance to claim Ivory Coast’s first world title in any event
The trio made history of some sort in the first round when they became the second Nigerian trio of quartermilers to qualify for the semi-final of the championships after the feat recorded in 2009 by the trio of Folasade Abugan, Sorina Nwachukwu and Amaka Ogoegbunam.