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2023 YCG: Team Nigeria ends Olympics with six gold medals

Posted : 15 August 2023
Team Nigeria had drawn the curtain on the 2023 Youth Commonwealth Games, in Port of Spain the host city in Trinidad and Tobago with overall six gold medals on the final day and also set up a new games record in the 4×100 mixed relay to finish on a high. 
 

The junior Olympians finished their campaign on a blistering note with the last day gold rush winning three gold medal at the Commonwealth Youth Games and set a new Games Records


The day started with Faith Okwose and Samuel Ogazi registering their name as the queens and kings of 100m and 200 m respectively.

Faith claimed the gold medal in the women’s 400 meters while Samuel Ogazi men’s 200m events to make it a Nigerian affair in the sprints as both have earlier picked Gold Medals in the 100 meters boys and girls respectively. 

Okwose returned 23.36s to pick the women’s 200m gold while her compatriot Eyakpobeyan Justina settled for the silver medal with her time of 23.47s, Locker La’nica from Antigua and Barbuda won the Bronze.


Samuel Ogazi put every other contestant in his wake and won the gold with a time of 21.22s, while compatriot Okon Israel Sunday finished fourth in a time of 21.94s, missing the podium by a whisker.

Team Nigeria wrapped up a superb day at the games when the quartet of Ogazi, Eyakpobeyan, Okwose, and Okon claimed gold in the 4x100m Mixed Relay with a new game record of 42.68s, smashing the old record of  43.19 feats set by Australia at the 2017 Commonwealth Youth Games in Nashua.

Consequently, the three more gold medals won on the final day of action, took Nigeria's total medal haul, Eight medals, six gold and two silver medals, to finish the game in fifth behind South Africa in fourth ahead of Kenya in sixth position

The 2023 Commonwealth Youth Games started had Australia topped the overall medals table with 64 medals in all,  26 Gold, 17 Silver, and 21 Bronze medals.

The Aussies were followed by England with a total of 49 medals, 16 Gold, 17 Silver, and 26 Bronze.  

Scotland finished third with a total of 28 medals,  12 Gold, 11 Silver, and 5 Bronze, and South Africa tops the medals table in fourth position with a total of 20 medals, 7 Gold, 6 silver,r, and 7 Bronze medals.

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