CAA championship , a good training exercise for Nigerian athletes – Coach Okon
As the CAA region 2 Championships rounded off Wednesday at University of Ghana Sports Stadium Legon in Accra, Coach Gabriel Okon says it has been a good outing and training opportunity for Team Nigerian athletes.
After two days of competition, Nigerian athletes won the highest number of gold medals reaffirming their dominance of African athletics.
“There is no doubt our athletes didn’t get the kind of stiff competition we wanted, but they have done well. The home based athletes haven’t had much of competitions this season, so coming here was a plus for them and we can say it is a good training apportunity ahead of the National Championships and the African Championships that follows,” Okon stated.
He went on to enumerate the positives of the Accra outing.
“Ifeanyi Ojeli ran his seasons best time of 45.84 seconds, Faith Osamuyi who was forth in the women’s 100m hurdles at the African Games showed she has great potentials. Elo Joseph, Ronke Akanbi and others had good performances too.”
Speaking on her performance in the women’s 1500m, Ronke Akanbi said it was a good outing. She posted a season’s best of 4.23.18 seconds effort to win the gold.
At the African Games she ran 4.25. 42 seconds for a top ten finish.
“For me it is just like a warm up competition and I am looking forward to the African Championships,” said the 19 years old national record holder in the 3000m.
