The Kaduna State Ministry for Sports Development have begun a two day Athletics Meet in Kaduna.
The two-day event organised by the Athletics Association of Kaduna State (AA), is to serve as part of preparations for the upcoming Edo 2020 National Sports Festival in Benin City, ends on Friday.
In some of the events, Oyetunji Abdulaziz and Rotkeng Ishaya excelled in the blue ribald 100m event at the ongoing Kaduna State Commissioner for Sports (Dr Kabiru Mato) Zonal Athletics Trial ongoing at the Ahmadu Bello Stadium, Kaduna.
Oyetunji, 300 level student of the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, won the 100m men event in a blistering 9.8secs beating fellow Zone Two sprinter, Monday John who won a silver with 10.80secs and Collins Eze of Zone Three came third with 11.84secs.
Rotkeng Ishaya of Zone One ran 11.94secs to win the female version ahead of Hajara Haruna of Zone Two 12.22secs, and Temitope Olusesan also of Zone Two 12.95secs.
Suraju Habibu of Zone One ran 47.65secs to win the men quarter mile beating Oriaku Joshua (49.9secs) and Abubakar Tijani (51.9secs) both of Zone Two to silver and bronze respectively.
Zone Two made it gold and silver in the female quartermile event as Comfort Sule won in 1m: 10.2secs, Favour Dare placed second in 1m:2.3secs, while Favour Emmanuel of Zone One won bronze in 1m:5.09sesc.
Serial champion, Matthew Nancy led a Zone Three sweep of the women 5,000m ahead of Deborah Yohanna and Promise Samson in 19m:27.20secs, 20m:39.10secs and 21m:11.9secs respectively.
Husamatu Sanusi won the male 5,000m with 16m:10.01secs beating fellow Zone Three runner, Jimmy James 16m:05.16secs and Ibrahim Abdullahi of Zone One 17m:40.20.
Emmanuel Joshua of zone three leapt 6.63m to win the men’s long jump beating Solomon Ade 6.21m and Joshua Uban of zone one 5.62m.
Rachael Bernard of Zone Three won female long jump in 5.98m ahead of Peace Lekwot of zone two 4.73m and Faith Emmanuel of Zone One 4.40m.
Zone One won the male 4×400m, Zone Two won silver and Zone Three won bronze.
The female 4×400m was won by Zone Two as Zones One and Three came second and third respectively.
