Nigeria names 15-strong team for WCH Tokyo 25
The Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) has selected 15 athletes to represent Team Nigeria at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan from 13-21 September.
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The Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) has selected 15 athletes to represent Team Nigeria at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan from 13-21 September.
Nigerian athlete Ezekiel Nathaniel set a national record of 47.31 seconds in the men’s 400m hurdles at the 2025 Wanda Diamond League meeting in Silesia.
The Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) has named 26 athletes for the CAA Region II Senior Athletics Championships on August 18-19, 2025 in Accra, Ghana.
Nigeria’s Ezekiel Nathaniel, a 2025 NCAA Champion and one of the fastest athletes in the world in 400m hurdles, has signed a professional contract with Swiss sportswear brand On.
The Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) has selected 92 athletes to represent the host nation at the 3rd CAA U18/U20 Combined Championships in Abeokuta, Ogun State.
Forty-three countries have confirmed their participation as Abeokuta prepares to host the 3rd CAA African U18/U20 Combined Championships 16 to 20 July, 2025.
Nigeria’s Favour Ofili clocked 10.78 (+3.1 m/s) to win the women’s 100m Final at the 2025 ATX Sprint Classic in Georgetown, Texas on Saturday, June 28.
Ezekiel Nathaniel ran a personal best of 47.49 to become Baylor’s first National Champion in 400m hurdles, since Bayano Kamani in 2001, at Hayward Field on Friday.
Nigeria’s Ezekiel Nathaniel races to first sub-48 time in NCAA semifinal history for 400m Hurdles at the 2025 NCAA Outdoor Championships in Eugene, Oregon.
Favour Ofili of Nigeria ran the fastest women’s 150m dash in history with her winning time of 15.85 (2.0m/s) at the 2025 adidas Atlanta City Games in Piedmont Park on Saturday.
Abeokuta, Nigeria has been named as the new host city for the 3rd CAA African U18/U20 Combined Championships from 16-20 July, 2025.
Favour Ofili from Nigeria opened her season with a 10.99 (+0.4 m/s) win in the 100m at the 2025 LSU Alumni Gold event in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
2022 World hurdles champion Oluwatobiloba Amusan is among the key names announced for Team Nigeria to the World Athletics Relays Guangzhou 25 next month.
Nigerian Ezekiel Nathaniel lowers his African record to 44.74 to win the 400m title at the 2025 Big 12 Indoor Track and Field Championships in Lubbock, Texas on Saturday 1 March.
Sports heavyweights indicate readiness to volunteer at the 2025 Abuja ECOWAS Marathon as registration starts in Nigeria.
Nigerian Samuel Ogazi achieved eighth place with a time of 34.11 secs in the 300m race while compatriot Adekalu Fakorede secured seventh in the 200m final, clocking 21.16 at the Orange and Purple Invitational in Clemson, South Carolina on Saturday.
The ECOWAS Abuja International Marathon 2025 has been scheduled to take place on Saturday 1 March in the Nigerian capital city.
Tobiloba Amusan claimed the national 100m hurdles title (12.57) at the 2017 NCAA Outdoor Championships, earned three all-American honours, and secured second place in the event at the 2016 NCAAs during her two-year stint (2016-17) with the UTEP Miners.
Nigerian champion Favour Ofili says Team Nigeria officials failed to register her for the women’s 100m event at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
Commonwealth Games champions Tobi Amusan and Ese Brume are among the 35 athletes named on the Nigerian team for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games from 1-11 August.
The Lausanne-based Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS) dismissed the appeal for sanction sought by World Athletics and WADA against Nigerian athlete Tobiloba Amusan.
Nigeria dominated the podium with a clean sweep of the women’s discus throw final at the 23rd CAA African Athletics Senior Championships, Douala 24.
World record-holder Tobi Amusan from Nigeria wins her third consecutive 100m hurdles title at the African Games in Accra 2023
Chidi Okezie shocked the field, including African champion Muzala Samukonga, to win the men’s 400m title in 45.06 at the African Games Accra 2023.
Nigerian quartet of Emmanuel Ojeli, Patience Okon-George, Sikiru Adeyemi and Omolara Ogunmakinju storm to an African record of 3:13.26 in Accra.
High Altitude Athletics Club of Jos, announce intention to send 25 elite athletes to the 2023 ECOWAS Abuja International Marathon.
An initiative of the women’s 100m hurdles world record holder Tobi Amusan and quarter-miler Abiola Onakoya, the 2023 Tobi/Abiola Sprint and Relays Meet will hold in Ijebu-Ode from 3-4 November.
The reigning African champion Chioma Onyekwere becomes the first Nigerian woman to win Commonwealth Games gold in the Discus Throw event at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham on Tuesday.
Nigerian dynamite Tobi Amusan put together a flawless race to set a new world record of 12.12 secs in the 100m hurdles semifinals at World Athletics Championships Oregon22.
Sprinter Grace Nwokocha ran an outstanding anchor leg with 9.95 split to pulled the Nigerian women’s 4x100m relay quartet back into contention for third automatic spot for Saturday’s final at World Athletics Championships Oregon22.
British High Commissioner, Catriona Laing, hosted a farewell reception for Birmingham Commonwealth Games bound Nigerian athletes, alongside the Minister of Sports and the President of the Nigerian Olympic Committee in Abuja.
Favour Ashe and Grace Nwokwocha Saturday claimed their first national titles on Day two of action at the 2022 AFN Nigerian Championships in Benin City.
Team Nigeria to Maurice 2022 includes four defending African champions and World medallists such as: Ese Brume (Long Jump), Tobiloba Amusan (100m hurdles), Chioma Onyekwere (Discus Throw) and Chukwuebuka Enekwechi (Shot Put).
The 18-year-old school girl record run broke the 33-year-old national record of 9:41.28 in the event, which was set by Itsemhike Anwalimhobor on 22 March 1989 in Benin City.
Ofili, 19, breaks Blessing Okagbare’s Nigerian 200 metres national record of 22.04, which had stood since 2018, at the Tom Jones Memorial Invitational in Gainesville, Florida on Friday.
Adamu Shehu Muazu made history in the ancient town of Isonyin after he emerged the winner of the 1st MASA Isonyin Half Marathon on Saturday, April 16.
The 21km race will be flagged off at the Saderiren’s Palace while the finishing point will be at the Isonyin Grammar School field.
The first edition of the Amusan/Onakoya Athletics Meeting will hold on Thursday, February 24, 2022, at the Ijebu-Ode International Stadium, Ijebu-Ode.
Favour Ofili is the reigning youth Olympic champion from Buenos Aries 2018 and topped the bill in the 400m final as well at the African Youth Games in the same year.
The fourth edition of the Access Bank Lagos City Marathon is scheduled to hold on Saturday 2 February, 2019 in Lagos, Nigeria, and all entries and registration must be completed on or before 11 January, 2019.
The registration for the fourth edition of the Access Bank Lagos City Marathon 2019 will officially begin on Monday, September 3, 2018.
More than 20 secondary schools in Nigeria will compete at the inaugural edition of the Government College Ughelli (GCU) Relays scheduled for Saturday 17 November, 2018.
2014 Commonwealth sprint champion Blessing Okagbare-Ighoteguonor and 2018 NCAA 200m champion Divine Oduduru will lead a 95-member Nigerian team for the 21st CAA African Senior Athletics Championships in Asaba, Delta State on 1-5 August.
Asaba, the Delta-State capital, is buzzing ahead of Wednesday’s African Athletic tour event which will be used to test the facilities for 21st African Senior Athletics Championships, Asaba 2018 next month.
Vivian Gungaram, the president of Mauritius Athletics Association (MAA), vice-president and technical director of the Confederation of African Athletics (CAA) has expressed satisfaction with the level of preparedness of the Delta-State govt and Asaba 2018 LOC for the 21st African Senior Championships in Asaba, Nigeria.
42 African countries were present in Asaba, Delta State on Tuesday for the Delegates Registration Meeting (DRM) as the countdown to the 21st African Senior Athletics Championships (ASAC) Asaba 2018 continues.
The planned test competition to serve as a dress rehearsal for the 21st CAA African Senior Championships will take place at the newly-completed Stephen Keshi Stadium, Asaba Delta State on Wednesday, 18 July, 2018.
The Local Organising Committee (LOC) for the CAA Asaba 2018 African Senior Athletics Championships will hold a fund-raising dinner on Thursday 12 July at the Grand Hotel, Asaba, featuring the creme de la creme of Delta State and sports in Nigeria.
The Local Organising Committee for the Asaba 2018 African Senior Athletics Championships have sounded a final note of warning to journalists and media practitioners yet to complete their accreditation procedure and are hoping to cover the August 1-5 event in Delta State, Nigeria.
Nigeria’s leading commercial bank, Zenith Bank Plc has been announced as the official sponsor of the 21st CAA African Senior Athletics Championship Asaba 2018.
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