Nigeria’s ladies’s 4x100m relay group delivered the nation’s standout second on the Islamic Solidarity Video games in Riyadh, storming to gold and setting the tone for one more sturdy efficiency that lifted Group Nigeria’s medal haul to 25 after shut of occasions on Wednesday.
The quartet of Iyanuoluwa Bada, Miracle Ezechukwu, Maria Thompson, and Chioma Nweke mixed superbly to safe Nigeria’s first Athletics gold of the Video games, stopping the clock at 44.27s.
They held off Bahrain, who settled for silver in 44.47s, whereas Gambia completed third in 45.05s.
Nigeria added extra relay success within the males’s 4x100m, the place John Caleb, Chidera Ezeakor, Ezekiel Asuquo, and James Taiwo Emmanuel battled to a bronze medal behind Saudi Arabia and Oman.
Within the discipline occasions, Samuel Kure claimed bronze within the males’s javelin with a throw of 76.01m, ending simply behind Pakistan’s duo of Arshad Nadeem—who dominated with 83.05m—and Muhammad Yasir, who narrowly edged him for silver.
On the monitor, Gafar Badmus produced one of many day’s finest particular person performances, equaling his Private Better of 45.71s to win bronze within the males’s 400m.
He completed on the identical time as silver medalist Emmanuel Bamidele of the UAE, separated solely by a photograph end. Fellow Nigerian finalist Ezekiel Asuquo pulled up mid-race and didn’t end.
Persistence Okon-George added one other podium end for Nigeria, claiming silver within the ladies’s 400m with a time of 51.93s. Bahrain’s Salwa Eid Naser took gold in 51.59s, whereas Uganda’s Leni Shida secured bronze.
Within the males’s 200m remaining, Chidera Ezeakor returned to position fifth in 20.97s. Cameroon’s Emmanuel Eseme gained gold in 20.55s forward of Saudi Arabia’s Abdulaziz Atafi.
Nigeria ended the day ninth on the medal desk with 8 gold, 10 silver, and seven bronze medals, because the athletes proceed to construct momentum heading into the ultimate phases of the Video games this weekend.
