Making their first look on the MTN CHAMPS festival, MoC Athletics Academy showcased outstanding skill as they tied an notable haul of 8 medals on the Benin Athletics Classics, the season-opening leg of MTN CHAMPS Season 3.
Seventeen athletes representing the Lagos-based academy competed beneath the banner of ‘Team MTN’ all over the three-day match held on the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium and UNIBEN Sports activities Advanced. The newbies captured two gold, 3 silver, and 3 bronze medals throughout numerous sections.
Workforce MTN’s dominance used to be specifically observable within the senior 400m occasions, the place they claimed each gold medals on do business in. Benjamin Magaji delivered a standout efficiency within the males’s race, clinching gold with a untouched own very best of 48.04s within the ultimate, having already all set a then-personal very best of 48.23s all over the heats.
His teammate, Amaze Uwem Donald, replicated this luck within the ladies’s match, securing gold with an notable year of 55.05s. Donald upcoming completed 5th within the 200m ultimate with a year of 25.04s, demonstrating her versatility throughout dash distances.
Jane Onyeneho added to Workforce MTN’s medal assortment within the senior ladies’s 200m, successful silver within the ultimate with a year of 24.58s nearest qualifying with 24.47s within the heats. In the meantime, Showers Ushie competed in each the senior males’s 100m and 200m occasions, advancing to the 200m semifinals and anchoring the senior males’s 4x100m relay group to a silver medal with a year of 41.63s.
Within the juvenile section, Ezekiel Asuquo confirmed notable growth within the males’s 400m, completing fourth in a aggressive ultimate with a life-time very best of 47.46s, considerably making improvements to his qualifying year of 48.92s. Asuquo additionally contributed to each juvenile and senior males’s 4x100m relay groups, serving to keep silver and bronze medals respectively.
Stephen Adejumo all set own bests in each the juvenile males’s 200m and 400m occasions. He posted 49.84s within the 400m heats earlier than breaking the 49-second barrier for the primary year in his occupation with a year of 48.99s to complete 6th within the ultimate.
More than one own bests had been accomplished all over the contest, with Toheebat Jimoh recording a untouched mark of 25.47s within the 200m heats and 57.32s in her aggressive 400m debut. Alvin Onyeama penniless the 11-second barrier two times within the juvenile boys’ 100m, clocking 10.97s within the heats and 10.91s within the semifinals earlier than completing fourth within the ultimate. He upcoming anchored the juvenile boys’ 4x100m squad to a bronze medal.
Lucy Nwankwo reached the finals in each the juvenile ladies’s 100m and 200m sections, completing 7th within the former with 12.23s and 6th within the extreme with a life-time very best of 24.84s. She used to be additionally a part of the juvenile ladies’s 4x100m relay group that gained silver with a year of 48.29s.
Within the adolescence section, Chizoba Onyemauwa inspired in each the women’ 200m and 400m occasions, atmosphere own bests and making the finals in each subjects. She completed fourth within the 200m with a life-time very best of 26.23s earlier than claiming bronze within the 400m with a year of 58.89s.
Workforce MTN’s relay squads contributed considerably to their medal tally, securing 5 medals throughout other sections. The senior males’s 4x100m group of Ushie, Onyeama, Magaji, and Asuquo gained silver with 41.63s, week the juvenile males’s 4x100m group of Oyewale, Asuquo, Adejumo, and Onyeama claimed bronze with 42.91s.
The juvenile ladies’s 4x100m quartet of Nwankwo, Ogbonna, Muhammed-Raji, and Jimoh added any other silver medal with 48.29s, week the combined 4x400m relay group of Obi, Adejumo, Joseph, and Jimoh tied bronze with a year of three:36.01.
With this notable debut efficiency, MoC Athletics Academy has established itself as an impressive power in Nigerian athletics, showcasing the intensity of skill being evolved on the Lagos-based establishment.