African champion, Blessing Onyebuchi (+70kg), has capped a memorable outing for Nigeria at the inaugural, ANOC World Beach Games in Doha, Qatar with a gold medal in beach wrestling. Emeka Dennar, Media Officer, Nigeria Wrestling Federation said on Wednesday in Port Harcourt that Onyebuchi, on the last day of the competition overpowered Ecuador’s Rosangela Reasco […]
Delta Governor, Sen. (Dr) Ifeanyi Okowa, has congratulated long jumper, Ese Brume, for winning Nigeria’s only medal at the just-concluded International Amateur Athletics Federation (IAAF) competition in Doha. The Delta-born Africa’s reigning long jump queen lept 6.91 metres on Sunday to win Bronze, Nigeria’s only medal at the tournament which ended that day. READ ALSO […]
British double Olympic and world champion Mo Farah will open his Diamond League campaign in Doha on May 15, organisers said. Farah will compete in the 3000 metres in the opening leg of the 14-meet series, marking the 32-year-old’s first appearance in Doha. “I’ve heard so many great things about the track, the crowd and […]