Nigeria snag Gold and Silver Medals at 2018 Youth Olympic Games

The Nigeria team were yet to register a medal at the competition that started on Saturday, October 6.

Rosemary Chukwuma

Rosemary Chukwuma won Nigeria’s first medal at the tournament when she snagged the 100m.

She registered 12.03 seconds in her preliminary round before cutting almost a second to run 11.17 seconds and claim gold.

Rosemary beat Santa Lucia’s Julien Alfred who took silver, while Ecuador’s Gabriela Anahi Suarez took bronze.

Speaking after her achievement RoseMary stated that she is delighted with her achievement after a bronze medal in the same event at the .

She said, "I am happy and satisfied because before coming to Argentina I did not have good results," Chukuma said. "I was scared that I would not get what I hoped for at these Games. I did not think that it was possible, but God sees to everything.

“I started to train in 2016 and I traveled to Australia last year to prepare in this discipline, then continued training in Nigeria."

Alaba Akintola

While Nigeria won a Gold medal in women’s 100m event Alaba Akintola gave his best and eventually emerged a silver medal winner.

South African Luke Davids beat Akintola to the Gold medal with Japan's Seiryo Ikeda claiming the bronze medal.

The victory for Nigeria comes after the medal haul at the 2018 Commonwealth Games earlier in the year.