Team UNILAG women’s 4x100m and 4x400m relay quartets swept the gold medal in both events at the 11th All-Africa University Games on Thursday, but it was three of the five schools representing Ghana at the event that stole the show in the other events, The PUNCH reports.
In a field of three schools, Team UNILAG were miles ahead of their Lagos rivals and co-hosts, Lagos State University as well as the Lagos State University of Science and Technology, Ikorodu, in the women’s 4x100m and 4x400m relays, as they claimed gold, silver, and bronze in the same order in both events.
However, the University of Ghana, the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, as well as the University of Development Studies, Ghana, made a huge statement for their country by winning the gold, silver, and bronze medals in the men’s 4x100m relay event.
The line-up for the race had seven universities, including co-hosts UNILAG, Federal University Oye-Ekiti, and UNIJOS.
In another sheer display of Ghana’s dominance on the track, Kwame Nkrumah University’s Janet Mensah won double gold in the women’s 100m and 200m events.
Mensah took the 100m gold in a time of 12.18s, followed by Zaineb Awuni of UNICAP in a time of 12.36s, and Morenikeji Suleimon of the Federal University of Oye-Ekiti claimed the bronze in 12.38s.
While Mensah repeated her winning feat with a time of 25.22s, Suleimon and Awuni swapped places for the silver and bronze, respectively.
In a deep men’s 100m, Aremu Adeyemi of FUOYE also beat the rest of the field to win gold in a time of 10.70s.
Williams Kwaku of the University of Ghana also won the men’s 200m.
He was followed by Nathaniel Keyeremateng and Moses Mbila of the University of Ghana in second and third.
The 2024 FASU Games are being co-hosted by the University of Lagos and the Lagos State University and will end on Sunday, September 29, with the closing ceremony at LASU.