Latest news and results from Nigeria – Live updates from the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) events and Golden League meetings.
Former national 400m champion, Folasade Abugan, today made her much anticipated return to the tracks after serving out a 2-year doping ban. Abugan, a former World Junior champion ran in the Heat 2 of the 400m women’s event but failed to make it to the nextround after running a poor time of 55.01 seconds which […]
Top Nigerian athletes arrive in Calabar this week to compete for places in the team for the IAAF World Athletics Championships holding in Moscow, Russia from August 10 – 18, 2013. The 67th All Nigeria track and field championships will hold from tomorrow through to Friday the 21st of June at the Cross River state […]
Nigerian athletes cruised to victory in virtually all the events at the 2nd edition of the Warri Relays/CAA Grand Prix held in Warri, Delta State last Friday. The Meet held inside the magnificent Warri City Stadium had athletes from the United States, United Kingdom, Fiji Island, St. Vincent and a couple of other African countries […]
A new national record of 63.79m was set by Queen Obisesan in the Women’s Hammer event at the fourth leg of the AFN/Solid Works Golden League Meet held at the Sports Complex of the University of Ilorin. Nigerian Sports minster and chairman of the National Sports Commission, Bolaji Abdullahi was there to witness Obisesan erase […]
A handful of fairly impressive performances were over the weekend recorded in the third leg of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria /Solid Works Golden League held inside the University of Benin Sports Complex in Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria. The new track sensation on the home-front and 400m Women hurdler, Kemi Adekoya continued her steady rise […]