Steve Oni, Ilorin
Kwara State Team has won three gold, one silver and one bronze medals at the just concluded Under eighteen and Under twenty first Golden League Athletics Championship held in Ijebu Ode, Ogun State.
The team won the three gold in the under twenty category with David Olowookere clinching gold in the four hundred metres hurdles boys, Joy Abu won the girls category while Mohammed Yusuf picked gold in the one hundred and ten hurdles.
In the under eighteen, Teslim Destiny clinched silver in the four hundred metres hurdles while Gbenga Emmanuel went home with bronze.
Eight States: Kwara, Delta, Akwa Ibom, Lagos, Ogun, Kaduna, Oyo, Ekiti and FCT participated in the invitational tournament.
Meanwhile, four Athletes and one Coach from Kwara State have been invited to the National camp ahead of the African Athletics Championship billed for Cote d voire from Monday next week to the twentieth of this month.
They are David Olowookere, Mohammed Yusuf, Teslim Destiny, Njoku Emmanuel and Coach Biodun Adeyemi.
Addressing the Athletes, the Kwara State Director of Sports, Mallam Tunde Kazeem commended them for their sacrifice and performance and the State Athletics Association for their support and encouragement.
Mallam Kazeem charged the Athletes to be good ambassadors of the State and the Nation, pledging that government would not relent in addressing their welfare.
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