The sports complex of Yaba College of Technology (YABATECH) is wearing a posh new for this year’s Nigerian National Athletics Championship and Invitational Relays starting on Thursday, megasportsaena.com reports.
The trials, which will be used to select Nigeria’s contingent to the delayed Games of the 32nd Olympic Games in Tokyo, which is scheduled to hold from July 23 to August 8, will see 11 events taking place on the opening day.
The fans will have the opportunity of watching queen of the track, Blessing Okagbare (100m and 200m) competing alongside other top athletes like Tobiloba Amusan (100mH), Ese Brume (long jump), Grace Nwokocha (100m and 200m) as well as Ruth Usoro (long and triple jump).
Also on offer will be Annette Echiunwoke (hammer throw), Chukwuebuka Enekwechi (shot put) among others at the 2021 National Championship, which is the flagship event of the Athletic Federation of Nigeria (AFN).
Nigeria’s top athletes converge to compete for honours and qualifications for major global and continental championships from the national trials, and this year’s edition will start with morning events will witness the 20km women and men final, the 100m prelims, 400m heat (men and women), 1,500m women final and the hammer women final.
Apart from the 100m finals expected to take place in the afternoon, there will be shotput men final with all eyes on Chukwuebuka Enekwechi, while Tobi Amusan will be geared up towards erasing the African Record in the women’s 100m hurdles.
All eyes will be on AMusan when she takes to the track in the heat as the men 110m hurdles will also taking place, while other events of the opening day are javelin men final and the 5000m men final.
