The Athletics Federation Nigeria (AFN) has described as unfortunate the attitude of some Nigerians who took to the social media to deride the vest wore by sprinter, Favour Ofili during the 4 x 100 metres event at the just concluded 18th World Athletics Championships in Oregon, United States. Letter ‘i’ was missing from the spelling of Nigeria on Ofili’s vest, …

… first Nigerian gold medalist Twice on Sunday night (early hours in Nigeria), Nigerian athlete, Tobi Amusan set a world record, and won the 100 metres hurdles in style at the World Athletics Championships in Oregon, United States. Amusan’s heroic and Ese Brume’s silver winning leap in the Women’s long jump gave Team Nigeria something to finally cheer as the …

Nigeria’s 4×100 metres team at the ongoing World Athletics Championships in Oregon, United States broke the 30-year-old African record in that event on Sunday morning. The quartet of Joy Udo-Gabriel, Favour Ofili, Rosemary Chukwuma and Grace Nwokocha ran the race of their lives in the final with a time of 42.22 seconds to break the long-standing 42.39 seconds national/African record …

Nigeria ended its participation in the 22nd African Athletics Championships, which ended in Mauritius on Sunday, as the third country on the medal table, while Kenya won overall. It was the second straight time that Kenya would top the table in the championships. The Kenyans won their 10th gold medal – the 23rd in total – on Sunday to finish …

With two days to conclude the 22nd African Senior Athletics Championship in Mauritius, Team Nigeria has moved to the third spot have won two more gold medals and a bronze on Friday, increasing Nigeria’s medal haul to six –  three gold, two silver, and a bronze. South Africa and Kenya currently occupy the top two spots with five and four …

Kenya’s double Olympic champion Eliud Kipchoge won the Tokyo marathon on Sunday but narrowly failed to beat his own world record in a dominating performance. Kipchoge made it to the finish line with the fourth-fastest time in history the race in 2hr 2min 40sec, which earned him the fourth of the world’s six major marathons. The 37-year-old has now run three of the four …