Athletics

Voice of Nigeria brings the full schedule of all Team Nigeria events on Day 8 of the Olympic Games taking place in Tokyo. Follow us for the latest fixtures and results of the ongoing Tokyo 2020 Olympics. D'Tigress (BASKETBALL)…

One of the star athletes Team Nigeria is banking on for medals at the Tokyo Olympics, long jumper, Ese Brume has pleaded with Nigerians to continue to support the athletes as the Games officially begins today. Brume, who was Nigeria’s…

Kenyans dominated the maiden Ijebu Heritage Half Marathon with Sandra Chebet taking gold in the women's category in a time of 1:10:42, while Ethiopians Gebaynesh Ayele and Beyenu Degefa took second and third position respectively at the…

Against the odds, eleven-year-old Nigerian Abigael Ogunbowale stole the show at the maiden edition of Ijebu Heritage Half-Marathon to finish the 21km race at the Otunba Dipo Dina Stadium, Ijebu-Ode in Ogun State. Ogunbowale, a registered…

The Former President of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN), Solomon Ogba, said Nigerian athlete Divine Oduduru will run a faster time at the Tokyo Olympics after the sprinter came third at the Istvan Gyulai Memorial meeting in…

World Athletics (WA)  has disqualified the Nigerian women’s 4x400m team from the 2020 Tokyo Olympics following some technical errors in the race where they secured qualification at the Lagos Open Athletics Championships on June 24. The…

Athletes Patience Okon-George, Rosemary Chukwuma,  and Chioma Onyekwere became Team Nigeria’s latest entry to the Tokyo 2020 Olympics following their confirmation by World Athletics (WA) to compete at the games, subject to official…

South African athlete Caster Semenya again failed to achieve the Olympic qualifying time for the women’s 5000m when she finished fourth at a meeting in Liege, but she would not have been included in South Africa’s team for the Tokyo Games…

Rising Nigerian athlete Maria Umoibang has qualified for the sprint double at the forthcoming World U20 Championships in Nairobi after storming to a new Personal Best (PB) of 24.31s to win the women’s 200m at the Paga/MoC Relays held at the…

Nigeria’s mixed 4x400m Relay team broke the African Record (AR) and National Record (NR) in a new time of 3:14.09 at the Paga/Making of Champions Relays which took place at the Sports Complex of the Yaba College of Technology in Lagos,…