By francis Ajuonuma
After 11 days of stiff competition against some of the best in the world, the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham came to a close yesterday with Team Nigeria posting an outstanding performance that saw them for the first time in more than five editions finished above South Africa as Africa’s number one.

However, Team Nigeria for the first time in many years finished seventh on the overall medal table with 12 gold, nine silver and 14 bronze medals.

As expected, Australia topped the medal table after amassing 66 gold, 54 silver and 53 bronze medals, England placed second with 55 gold, 59 silver and 52 bronze medals, while Canada took the third position, having won 25 gold, 31 silver and 34 bronze medals.

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South Africa which has always topped the African countries could only win seven gold, 9 silver and 11 bronze to finish nineth on the medal table and second on the African chart.

No doubt, yesterday being closing day of the games was medal feasting day for team Nigeria as they won a total of three and one bronze medals from the women’s100m hurdles, women’s 4x100m relay, women’s long jump and men’s 4x100m.

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Running in the women’s 100m hurdles final that featured a very strong field of Devynne Charlton of Bahamas, Cindy Sember of England, Megan Tapper of Jamaica, Australia’s Michelle Jenneke and Jamaica’s Danielle Williams, saw Nigeria’s Tobi Amusan once again proved she is the Queen of the 100m hurdles as she dusted all the opposition to breeze the tap 12:30secs to set a new games record.

Team Nigeria also set a new games’ record in the women’s long jump with Ese Brume, who lept 7:00 metres to win the gold medal, the silver medal went to Brooke Buschkuehl of Australia with a jump of 6: 95m, while ghana’s Deborah Acquah. Nigeria’s second entrant in the final, Ruth Usoro failed to make the medal podium as she finished 6th with a jump of 6.56m