Islamic Solidarity Games: Edidiong Joseph Umoafia 🇳🇬 collected 3 medals in the Men's 71kg Weightlifting Category, including a GOLD medal in the Snatch Snatch: 151kg 🥇 Clean & Jerk: 175kg 🥉 Total: 326kg 🥈 He was a Bronze medalist in the 2022 Commonwealth Games

African U20 200m Champion Success Oyibu 🇳🇬 has signed with Baylor University Oyibu was also the African U20 100m Silver medalist and was part of the gold medal winning 4x100m relay She has personal bests of 11.58 seconds in the 100m and 23.56 seconds in the 200m

Mississippi State is becoming a Nigerian 🇳🇬 track hub. Along with returning top SEC performers Ramat Jimoh & Fakorede Adekalu, new additions include: 🐶 Emmanuel Badejo - 46.05s in Division II 🐶 Ife Adisa - 53.96s/2:06.21s in Nigeria 🐶 Adetutu Aladeloye - 11.49s/23.46s in JuCO

The Athletics contingent for Team Nigeria is en route to Saudi Arabia for the Islamic Solidarity Games Nigeria is currently 6th on the medal table with 6 Gold medals & 14 total medals from Weightlifting and Boxing. Athletics starts Monday November 17 📸: N-Youth Sports Academy

The 1st Athletics session for the Islamic Solidarity Games starts this morning with the Men’s 100m heats African U20 medalist 🇳🇬 Caleb John will be in Heat 1 which includes African Games Champion 🇨🇲 Emmanuel Eseme 🇳🇬 James Emmanuel will run in Heat 3 with 🇴🇲 Ali Al Balushi

🇳🇬 Caleb John finished 2nd in his Men’s 100m heat at the Islamic Solidarity Games running 10.46 seconds into a -1.7m/s headwind. 🇨🇲 Emmanuel Eseme won the race running 10.37 seconds These were the fastest two times across all 4 heats

🇳🇬 James Emmanuel finished 4th in his Men’s 100m heat at the Islamic Solidarity Games running 10.87 seconds into a -1.7m/s headwind. 🇴🇲 Ali Al Balushi won running 10.51 seconds followed by 🇬🇾 Emanuel Archibald at 10.56 seconds James will advance to the semifinals later today

Medals will be up for grabs in the Day 1 Evening session of the Islamic Solidarity Games Nigeria’s Discus Duo of Chioma Onyekwere-Lyons & Obiageri Amaechi have their final Caleb John & James Emmanuel will both run in the first Men’s 100m semifinal with a chance at the final

🇳🇬 Obiageri Amaechi wins the Silver medal in the Women’s Discus at the Islamic Solidarity Games throwing 56.99 meters. 🇨🇲 Nora Monie won the Gold with a mark of 57.04 meters. 🇹🇷 Ozlem Becerek was 3rd at 55.56 meters 🇳🇬 Chioma Onyekwere-Lyons finished 4th throwing 55.08 meters

🇳🇬 Caleb John ran 10.42 seconds to finish 4th in Semifinal 1 in the Men’s 100m at the Islamic Solidarity Games. He qualifies to the final later tonight 🇳🇬 James Emmanuel finished 6th in Semifinal 2 running 10.46 seconds and will not advance to the final

🇳🇬 Chioma Nweke ran 11.64 seconds to finish 2nd in her Women’s 100m semifinal heat at the Islamic Solidarity Games. She gets the automatic Q into the final later today 🇳🇬 Iyanuoluwa Bada ran 11.71 seconds to finish 4th in her heat and will not advance to the final

🇳🇬 Chidera Ezeakor ran a personal best 20.72 seconds in the Men’s 200m semifinals at the Islamic Solidarity Games. He improved on his 20.77 second PB from the CAA Region II Championship in August He finished 2nd in his heat and advances to tomorrow’s final

🇳🇬 Gafar Badmus & 🇳🇬 Ezekiel Asuquo both competed in the Men’s 400m semifinals at the Islamic Solidarity Games. Badmus ran 46.48 seconds in Heat 1 while Asuquo ran 46.97 in Heat 3 Asuquo will advance to the final after finishing Top 2 in his heat. Badmus will not advance

Old Friend Alert! Absolutely smashed her PB 11.17 in November is wild Good for her!!

A host of medals are up for grabs for Team Nigeria at today’s evening session of the Islamic Solidarity Games Men’s 200m - Chidera Ezeakor Men’s Javelin - Samuel Kure Women’s 400m - Patience Okon-George Men’s 400m - Ezekiel Asuquo - Gafari Badmus Women’s 4x100m Men’s 4x100m

🇳🇬 Patience Okon-George wins the Silver medal 🥈 in the Women’s 400m at the Islamic Solidarity Games running 51.93 seconds. She finished just behind 🇧🇭 Salwa Eid Nader who won the Gold running 51.59 seconds This is Nigeria’s first Track medal at these Games

🇳🇬 Gafar Badmus wins the Bronze medal 🥉 in the Men’s 400m at the Islamic Solidarity Games running 45.71 seconds. 🇦🇪 Emmanuel Bamidele also ran 45.71 seconds and was awarded the Silver. 🇲🇦 Rachid M’hamdi ran 45.40 seconds for Gold 🇳🇬 Ezekiel Asuquo did not finish the race

🇳🇬 Samuel Kure wins the Bronze medal 🥉 in the Men’s Javelin at the Islamic Solidarity Games with him 76.01 meter mark. Just shy of his season’s best of 76.79 meters from August The Pakistani duo of 🇵🇰 Arshad Nadeem (83.05m) & 🇵🇰 Muhammad Yasir (76.04m) went 1-2 in the final

Full Day 3 Evening Session Results Men’s 200m Chidera Ezeakor - 20.97s 6️⃣th Men’s Javelin Samuel Kure - 76.01m 🥉 Women’s 400m Patience Okon-George - 51.93s 🥈 Men’s 400m Gafar Badmus - 45.71s 🥉 Ezekiel Asuquo - DNF Women’s 4x100m - 44.27s🥇 Men’s 4x100m - 39.51s 🥉

🇳🇬 Peace Nwaelehia has transferred to Texas A&M University after spending one season at West Texas A&M in Division II Last season she ran a personal best of 52.11 seconds in the 400m & 23.46 in the 200m Texas A&M's Women's 4x400m squad finished 4th at the NCAA Championships