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  • Team Ogun wins gold in 4×400 mixed relay

    Team Ogun wins gold in 4×400 mixed relay

    Team Ogun on Friday won the 4×400 mixed relay at the ongoing National Sports Festival tagged “Gateway Games 2024.”

    Speaking after the race at the MKO Abiola Sports Arena in Abeokuta, Ogun State, the team’s Coach, Saheed Akinpelu, applauded the athletes for the feat.

    The winners were Gafar Badmus, Tosin Adeloye, Samson Nathaniel, and Toheebat Jimoh.

    He explained that they won the race through dedication and hard work, saying that the state government tried by putting the athletes in a camp.

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    He stated, “At the same time, I am still appealing to the government, assuming we spent like three months in camp, we would have even done better than this. We used all our strategies to defeat states such as Bayelsa, Delta, and other good states. Our athletes are humble, and they listen to instructions. That tells you there’s love in camping. I am on top of the world, we started with a gold this morning in the walking race and now a gold medal in the relay. It is fantastic and a good result for us.’’

    He expressed optimism that more gold medals would still be won by the state, saying that the athletes had worked hard and prayed.

    Edo and Lagos states came second and third, respectively.

  • NSF 2024: Akinsanmi, Olajide win historic gold medals for Team Ogun

    NSF 2024: Akinsanmi, Olajide win historic gold medals for Team Ogun

    The duo of Omolola Tobiloba Akinsanmi and Owolabi Olajide yesterday etched their names into the history by winning historic gold medals  for Ogun State  in the swimming  and golf events  at the on-going

     22nd  National Sports Festival otherwise known as Gateway Games Ogun 2024.

    The UK-based Akinsanmi, practically defied the odds to win the state’s  first  gold  medal  at this games  as well as its first-ever gold medal in the women’s 800-meter freestyle in swimming.

    In her extraordinary display at the new Olympic size swimming pool  inside the  MKO Abiola Sports Arena,  the young swimmer  staged comeback as she found herself in third place 400 late in the event, but turned on the heat to secure the top spot.

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    A visibly happy Akinsanmi said  winning the women’s 800-metre  freestyle was by no means  an easy task  but a dint of hard work  after rigorous years of training.

     “The 800 is a very long event, so I had to prepare mentally, even though I started in third, I kept telling myself, ‘I’m ready. I’m going to win this’,” she said. “At the halfway mark, I pushed harder and started gaining speed. I said to myself, ‘I’m going to get this gold’ and I did.”

    News of Akinsanmi’s sensational feat in  the swimming pool was yet to die down when  Olajide  also  stroked  his way  in the golf course  by clinching  the gold medal in the Stroke Play Amateur  golf event.

    Ogun State won Bayelsa on sudden death with the gross scores of 72 while Niger played 76 gross.

    Following their  sensational victories both , Akinsanmi and Olajide  is  each guaranteed a N 2.5 million gift promised by the Ogun State Governor Prince Dapo Abiodun.