16-year-old Iyeneobong Essien has emerged second place winner at the 2022 Champion of Champions World Golf Championship Invitational in Northern Ireland.
The teenager competed in the 16 to 19 years category between July 26 to 28, 2022 at the Invitational; playing on two challenging courses, the Faldo Course and the Castle Hume Course at the Lough Erne Resort in Enniskillen, Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.
Team Nigeria has won a total of six medals (three gold, two silver and one bronze) at the 2022 ITTF Africa Youth Championship held in Tunisia.
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Nigeria’s quartet of Samson Nathaniel, Imaobong Nse Uko, Dubem Amene and Patience Okon-George became the first African team in World Championships history to compete in the final of the Mixed 4×400 meters event, finishing in a respectable sixth position to draw the curtains on Day 1 of the 2022 World Athletics Championships in Oregon.
Nigeria’s Women’s 4×100 meters quartet have set a new Nigerian and African records at 2022 World Athletics Championships in Oregon.
In the women’s 4×100 meters relay final, Nigeria’s squad of Joy Udo-Gabriel, Favour Ofili, Rosemary Chukwuma and Grace Nwokocha ran a spectacular race to set a new African and Nigerian Record of 42.22 seconds to finish 4th on the penultimate day of the World Championships.
Usoro Ruth has become the first Nigerian (male or female) to compete in both the Triple Jump and Long Jump events at the 2022 World Athletics Championships.
Team Nigeria has emerged overall winner at the 11th Africa Armwrestling Championships which held at the Indoor Sports Hall of National Stadium, Surulere in Lagos.
Team Nigeria won 27 gold, 27 silver and 22 bronze medals at the three-day championship.
Cameroon, Togo, Benin, Madagascar, Senegal, Cote dI’Voire, Guinea Conakry, Somalia and Niger were among other countries that took part in the competition.
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Ese Brume has become the first African to win two long jump World Championships medals At the 2022 World Athletics Championships.
On the final day of the 2022 World Championships in Oregon, Nigeria’s Ese Brume leapt into the history books to become the first African (male or female) to claim two Long Jump medals at the World Championships after winning Silver with a Season’s Best (SB) of 7.02 meters in the final of her event.