Nigeria’s 4x400m mixed relay team have clinched the gold medal at the ongoing World Athletics U-20 Championship in Nairobi, Kenya.
The team won the race in a new Championship record time of 3:19.70, beating Poland (3:19.80) and India (3:20.60).
Opeyemi Oke, Johnson Nnamani, Imaobong Nse Uko, and Bamidele Ajayi represented Nigeria at the event.
Also, they made history by becoming the first winners of the event at the World U20 Championship, as it was the first edition of the 4×400m mixed race at the competitions.
In the same vein, 17-year-old Nse Uko has qualified for the individual 400m final scheduled to hold this weekend and stands in a position to restore Nigeria as World U20 champions since Bisi Afolabi took over from Fatimah Yusuf as queen of the quarter-mile in 1994 in Lisbon, Portugal.
However, the duo of Praise Ofokwu and Godson Oghenebrume qualified for the 100m men and women’s final.
Oghenebrume sprinted 10.22 seconds to win his semifinal heat while Ofoku also came first in her semifinal heat, sprinting 11.57.
In the men’s javelin event, Chinecherem Nnamdi threw an unprecedented personal best and a Nigeria U20 record of 78.03 to qualify for the final game.
