The opening ceremony of Africa Youth Athletics Championships will, as usual, be the first spectacle fans will behold when the continental show kicks off at the Warri Township Stadium today. This will be at 2 pm.
Popular artist, Inyanya of All I WANT IS YOUR WAIST fame will perform at the opening ceremony that will be brief. There would be cultural displays and a historic relay that will depict a transition from the past generation to the present and then to the future.
Ethiopians arrive for Warri 2013. Photo: Henry Unini
Ethiopians arrive for Warri 2013. Photo: Henry Unini.
Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan will declare the championship open.
Immediately after this, 100m, arguably the most exciting event of track and field will start. The heats for the boys and girls will be followed by Long Jump for girls. Shot Put, Boys, Hurdles, Pole Vault, 800m, Discus will all follow. The interesting thing about today is that four gold medals will be up for grabs this afternoon.
The final of Pole Vault, Discus and 3,000 all for girls and Long Jump for Boys will come up this afternoon. The information was released by Commodore Omatseye Nesiama as related to him after the meeting of technical officials for the championships yesterday.
This is good for Africa – Moroccan official Tijani Hammou is a Track and Field Area Technical Official from Morocco.
He is among the foreign technical officials who will be officiating throughout the Africa Youth Athletics Championships that start today in Warri. He bared his mind on the championships while doing his accreditation.
’’The championship is good for Africa. It will help our athletes. It is the first edition in Africa but Europe and America and other parts of the world have had championships of this nature for long. It is part of the reason why they are doing better than us. I’m happy that we have started this.
We are in Nigeria with a lot of expectations from this athletes. This may be the beginning for many of the stars of tomorrow,’’ Tijani said.
source: vanguardngr
Popular artist, Inyanya of All I WANT IS YOUR WAIST fame will perform at the opening ceremony that will be brief. There would be cultural displays and a historic relay that will depict a transition from the past generation to the present and then to the future.
Ethiopians arrive for Warri 2013. Photo: Henry Unini
Ethiopians arrive for Warri 2013. Photo: Henry Unini.
Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan will declare the championship open.
Immediately after this, 100m, arguably the most exciting event of track and field will start. The heats for the boys and girls will be followed by Long Jump for girls. Shot Put, Boys, Hurdles, Pole Vault, 800m, Discus will all follow. The interesting thing about today is that four gold medals will be up for grabs this afternoon.
The final of Pole Vault, Discus and 3,000 all for girls and Long Jump for Boys will come up this afternoon. The information was released by Commodore Omatseye Nesiama as related to him after the meeting of technical officials for the championships yesterday.
This is good for Africa – Moroccan official Tijani Hammou is a Track and Field Area Technical Official from Morocco.
He is among the foreign technical officials who will be officiating throughout the Africa Youth Athletics Championships that start today in Warri. He bared his mind on the championships while doing his accreditation.
’’The championship is good for Africa. It will help our athletes. It is the first edition in Africa but Europe and America and other parts of the world have had championships of this nature for long. It is part of the reason why they are doing better than us. I’m happy that we have started this.
We are in Nigeria with a lot of expectations from this athletes. This may be the beginning for many of the stars of tomorrow,’’ Tijani said.
source: vanguardngr
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