Okagbare, Amusan, Chukwuma Set To Burn The Track — Leadership Newspaper

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After five days’ action, the 19th national Sports Festival (NSF), tagged: ‘Abuja 2018’ would final come alive today as African queen of the track, Blessing Okagbare and other top notch athletes will take to the track for the athletics event at the main bowl of the Abuja National stadium.

Already, most of top foreign based Nigerian athletes are in Abuja to get the tracks burning today.

Okagbare and reigning Commonwealth and African Champion in the 100m Hurdles Event, Tobi Amusan, as well as Ese Brume who will be competing in the Long Jump event are in Abuja to compete for Team Delta, who are already topping the medal table with a wide margin.

Aside Okagbare and  Amusan, spectators and analysts alike would also watch out for FCT’s Rosemary Chukwuma who won Nigeria her only gold medal at the recently concluded 2018 Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Chukwuma saved the best for last having finished third in the first stage of the race but won the final race with an…



Source: Leadership Newspaper