Foundation Science won big on the final day of MTN CHAMPS Jos, making away with two team trophies in the Youth Boys and Girls categories.
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Moments after running that staggering 10.78s in the 100m, Favour Ofili returned for the women's 200m, and she won in style, breaking the Facility Record with a time of 22.34s (-2.0).

It was very close to her SB of 22.33s.



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Although Tobi Amusan ended up being disqualified in this race, she showed great resilience crossing the line first ahead of Jasmine Camacho-Quinn & Devynne Charlton.

No shaking... Tobi Express isn't going away! No gree for anybody!



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Favour Ofili has gone to number 2 in the Nigerian women's 100m all-time (all conditions) list.

1⃣0⃣.7⃣8⃣s with a slight excessive tailwind of +2.2 is quite an incredible return.

Star Girl is showing working 👏👏



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In an unprecedented move, Team MVP will present a record 7 teams, up from 5 Teams presented in Season 1, with the added innovation of also having Team A and Team B in categories with the most talent discovered! makingofchamps.com/2024/04/27/75-…

10.78s!!🤯🔥
FAVOUR OFILI is HER!

Favour Ofili 🇳🇬 has just run a stunning 10.78s (2.2) over 100m at the LSU Invitational, an all-conditions Personal Best (PB)!

She just narrowly missed out on claiming Blessing Okagbare's National Record of 10.79s due to the wind, whilst…

61.44m!!🤯🔥

Vincent Ugwoke 🇳🇬 has just landed a massive Personal Best (PB) of 61.44m in the men's Discus Throw at the East Coast Relays, the best distance by a Nigerian man since Stephen Mozia in 2016!

He finished 2nd in the competition behind Milton Ingraham 🇺🇸 who won with…

Tobi Amusan's 🇳🇬 mental fortitude!

She false-started (beating the start threshold by 0.007s) and was disqualified in the women's 100mH at the Shanghai Diamond League. She requested to run under protest!

Coming from behind, she then ran down the entire field, winning the race…

Rosemary Chukwuma 🇳🇬 was in action at the Corky/Crofoot Shootout in Texas, running a windy 10.97s (4.1) to finish 2nd in the women's 100m, just edged out by her Texas Tech teammate Alyssa Colbert 🇺🇸 who posted 10.96s to win.
Success Umukoro was 3rd in 11.23s.

Chukwuma then…

Erhire Best 🇳🇬 led a Nigerian 1-2 finish in the men's High Jump at the Corky/Crofoot Shootout, clearing a height of 2.17m and just edging Justine Jimoh 🇳🇬 who cleared the same height for a Personal Best (PB).

Closest to them was Aleksandr Gerasimov, who jumped 2.12m.

On the…

Utitofon Sam 🇳🇬 won the women's Discus Throw at the Texas Invitational, nailing the win from the onset with a Personal Best (PB) of 55.84m!

She beat Texas University duo of Chrystal Herpin, Nina Ndubuisi, who were 2nd and 3rd respectively with 55.55m and 53.45m.

Goodness Iredia 🇳🇬 swept to an impressive Personal Best (PB) of 7.94m (0.0) to win the men's Long Jump at the East Coast Relays!

He defeated Russell Robinson 🇺🇸 who jumped 7.82m (1.2) and Damarcus Simpson 🇺🇸 in 3rd place, also with 7.82m (1.5).

Salisu Habibu recorded his second triumph at the #MTNChampsJos , winning the men's 800m in a Season's Best of 1:56.72, and adding another conquest to the 1500m that he had already won at the competition.

Habibu is from Zamfara state, but he is currently studying Human Kinetics…

The 800m is one event Nigeria can actually excel in, with Plateau state providing the bulk of the talent who could bring Athletics glory for Nigeria.

Habeeb Lawal Nalele ran the fastest he has ever in the 800m, winning the U20 Junior title in a new Personal Best of 2:02.49. In…

Friendship - they might have competed against each other in the men's 200m final, but Alphonsus Akwaga, Ebuka Monday, Divine Okisamen and Ibrahim Adamu showed great sportsmanship, with the other three athletes congratulating Akwaga after he posted an SB of 22.19s to win the race.…

Miracle Ezechukwu was again the star on the final day of competition at MTN CHAMPS Jos, stunning with a massive Personal Best (PB) of 24.05s (-0.8) to win GOLD in the Junior women’s 200m final.
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Stepping down from the long-distance events into the shorter sprints, Temitope Olusesan is gradually settling to life in her new events, and she looks like she would really excel in them.

Temitope made a clean sweep in the sprints at #MTNChampsJos , winning the women's 400m, 200m…

Seven months ago at the National Youth Games in Asaba: the quartet of Lucy Nwankwo, Chigozie Nwankwo, Miracle Oluebube & Adaeze Ezeh were the dominant athletes in the short sprints at the Games. They teamed up to win GOLD for Anambra state in the Girls 4x100m.

Taking different…

A fired-up Yusuf Muhammed Kabir after seeing that he had run an all-conditions Personal Best (PB) of 10.69s to win the Senior men's 100m at MTN CHAMPS Jos!

Kabir is a hurdler and competed at MTN CHAMPS Asaba where he finished 3rd, with an injury.

He would have competed at the…

Chigozie Rosemary Nwankwo could hardly believe her eyes after seeing that she had broken 12 seconds for the first time over 100m at MTN CHAMPS Jos!

She stormed to a Personal Best (PB) of 11.95s to win her semifinal race, breaking the previous PB of 12.02s she had set earlier in…