BEVERLY HILLS, April 11, (THEWILL) – The 20th National Sports Festival (NSF) currently underway in Benin City, tagged Edo2020, was into Day 10 on Sunday and the athletes continued to demonstrate the competitive edge to outdo one another to the winning podium and the medal honours.
Many of them who had endured the series of postponements the fiesta faced could not wait to get their events started and were immediately off to victories the moment the whistle was blown or the GO signal was given, with a frenzied rush to the finish. An example of that is record-setting Team Bayelsa swimmer Ifiaezibe Gbagbe, who won 15 medals, eight of which were gold, 2 silver and 5 bronze.
In the events of Day 10, Men’s high jump final results saw David Aya of Team Delta jump to gold, Oyedele Cyprian of Team Lagos took silver while fan favourite, Mike Edwards, former Big Brother Nigeria contestant, of Team Rivers went home with the bronze.
Team Rivers added another gold medal to their collection when their athlete Ebubechukwu Ugwoke won a gold medal in the Discuss event. In the same vein, another gold went to Team Akwa Ibom from the 800m Men’s event after Edidiong Udo breasted the tape with a time of 1:49:89s.
The leading Team from Delta State added to their every-growing haul of medals when Chidi Okezie won gold in the Men’s 400m with a personal best record of 45.60s, dusting Emmanuel Ojeli of Team Lagos to silver and the third member of the “terrific trio,” Sikiru Adeyemi, had the consolation of snatching bronze in 46.51s.
The wheelchair tennis event final honours went to Kemi Oluwasegun of Team Rivers after her hard-fought three-setter victory added a gold medal to the Rivers State collection so far, which left Kafayat Omisore of Team Delta with the silver.
Earlier on, at the medals presentation for the three categories of the male rugby event, the 7’s, 10’s and 15’s the following teams were on the podium to claim their medals accordingly:
7”s
Team Kano -Gold
Edo state – Silver
Delta state Bronze
10”s
Delta Gold
Plateau -Silver
Edo- Bronze
15’s
Edo – Gold
Kano – Silver
Delta – Bronze
In the women’s doubles of the tennis event, Team Edo’s duo of Airhuwunde Osariemen and Aanu Aiyegbusi served to the gold in their straight sets 6-3 6-2 victory over Rachel Adunoye and Esther Olamide of Team Kwara, who settled for bronze.
For volleyball, Team Rivers won gold with a 21-16, 21-16 victory in each set over Team Imo.
The medals table still has Team Delta in the lead while the rest of the top five remains largely unchanged even as the medals continue to add up for Edo, who skipped Bayelsa into second, Bayelsa third, followed by Teams Rivers and Lagos
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