Crew Edo underlined their dominance in weightlifting on the ninth Nationwide Youth Video games in Asaba, Delta State, ending far forward of rivals to emerge general champions.
Edo secured a powerful 12 medals — 9 gold, 1 silver, and a pair of bronze, with all their gold medals coming from the ladies’s division.
The trio of Favour Cornelius (44kg), Esther Amarachi Chijoke (48kg), and Magnificence Akpore (53kg) every swept three gold medals, making them essentially the most excellent performers of the competitors and powering Edo to the summit.
Within the males’s classes, Crew Akwa Ibom’s firepower stood out.
Future Okon Bassey (56kg) claimed two gold medals, whereas Goodness Samuel Okon (65kg) lifted his option to a clear sweep of three golds, making certain Akwa Ibom’s second-place end with 9 medals (5 gold, 2 silver, 2 bronze).
Crew Abia’s shining mild was Vitalis Nnaji Chiemerie, who utterly dominated the lads’s 60kg class, profitable all three gold medals on provide. His feat positioned Abia third on the medals desk with 3 gold medals.
There have been additionally memorable particular person highlights exterior the highest three groups.
Niger’s Abdulsalam Kamaldeen stole the present within the males’s 56kg clear and jerk with a gold-winning carry of 91kg. Oyo’s Fathia Toluwalase Owoyele displayed grit within the girls’s 48kg, incomes three silver medals.
From Enugu, Aguji Michael Chiemerie (65kg) secured three silvers, whereas the Ezenwa sisters—Esther Chidalu (FCT, 44kg) and Chinaza Cecilia (Lagos, 53kg)—collected a number of medals between them to maintain their states on the desk.
Different noteworthy contributions got here from Imo’s Victory Maduabuchi Iwuoha (1 silver, 2 bronze in males’s 60kg), Plateau’s Dach Veirat Dachoaaom (1 silver, 1 bronze in girls’s 53kg), whereas Delta and Osun battled exhausting for a mixed ten bronze medals.
On the shut of occasions, 12 states registered medals, however Edo’s good sweep within the girls’s classes was the defining storyline.
Commending the lifters, Dr. Ibrahim Abdul Aladi, President of the Nigeria Weightlifting Federation (NWF), hailed the standout skills and promised they’d be groomed for greater levels.
NWF technical official Sefiya Onubaye Ahuozia additionally praised the standard of competitors, stressing that the performances in Asaba show Nigeria’s weightlifting future is safe.
