Team Nigeria’s spectacular efficiency on the Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games continued yesterday, as Praise Ugoh made historical past by turning into the primary Nigerian to win the 400m title on the competitors. Her victory added one other gold medal to the nation’s historic dash double achieved by Rosemary Chigozie Nwankwo and Gift Bright on Sunday.
NOP NIGERIA experiences that Ugoh delivered a powerful efficiency within the girls’s 400m remaining, recording a private better of 52.76 seconds to safe gold in a fiercely contested race.
She completed forward of Venezuela’s Osmary Pacheco, who took silver in 52.85 seconds, whereas Aisha Muhammed of the United Arab Emirates settled for bronze in 53.06 seconds.
Ugoh’s private finest efficiency additionally underlines the progress of the younger athlete, who delivered when it mattered most to safe her place within the competitors’s historical past.
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Her triumph follows Nigeria’s excellent achievement within the 100m occasions on Sunday, when Rosemary Nwankwo and Gift Bright swept each dash gold medals to finish a historic Nigerian double.
Nwankwo stormed to victory within the girls’s 100m in 11.16 seconds whereas Bright made historical past within the males’s occasion, turning into the primary Nigerian to win the Youth Olympic Games 100m title.
Nigeria’s sweep of the lads’s and girls’s 100m titles marked the primary time the nation had received each dash crowns on the identical version of the Youth Olympic Games.
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