The Nigerian quartet of Patience George, Regina George, Ada Benjamin & Folashade Abugan won the gold in a time of 3 mins 28.87 seconds.

Kenya (3 mins 32.26 seconds) and Botswana (3 mins 40.28 seconds) came in 2nd and 3rd respectively.

Nice. . .

We own the african tracks. . .

http://makingofchampions.net/2014/08/14/nigerias-golden-girls-win-4x400m-title-as-curtain-falls-on-2014-african-championships/

Nigeria’s outstanding 4x400m women’s relay team capped a remarkable season with their fourth back-to-back title at the African Championships on the final day of competition in Marrakech, Morocco. The team comprising of Patience George Okon, Regina George, Ada Benjamin and Folashade Abugan consolidated on the team's impressive performance this season by sprinting to their first GOLD medal of 2014 with a time of 3:28.87s, with Kenya and Botswana following in their wake in second and third with 3:32.26s and 3:40.28s respectively.

The team won bronze at the inaugural IAAF World Relays in May, and then upgraded to silver at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow barely two weeks ago, before striking gold in Marrakech. It remains to be seen the colour of silverware they would claim when the IAAF Continental Cup gets underway in Marrakech a month from now!

Their male counterparts also won their first medal of the season as they took silver in 3:03.09 as they relinquished their crown to Botswana, who had the current record holder over 400m, Isaac Makwala as the anchor leg of the race. Botswana took the title with a National Record (NR) of 3:01.89s, while Kenya finished in third place with 3:07.35s. Noah Akwu, Robert Simmons, Miles Ukaoma and Amaechi Morton represented Nigeria in the race.

The first medal of the evening was won by Amaka Ogoegbunam in the women’s 400m hurdles, as she finished second in the 400m hurdles behind South Africa’s Wenda Theron Nel who clocked 55.32s to win gold. The Nigerian champion posted 55.46s while Kenya’s Francisca Koki finished third with a National Record of 55.84s.

Chinwe Okoro added another silver in the women’s shot put event where she recorded a distance of 16.40m, while Cameroun’s Sally Dongmo won with 16.84m. Nwanneka Okwelogu placed fourth with 15.14m. The duo won GOLD and Silver in the discus event the day before, with Okoro taking the title with a National Record (NR) of 59.79m.

Dominique Duncan was a surprise Bronze medallist in the women’s 200m as defending champion Gloria Asumnu relinquished her title to Cote D’Ivoire’s Murielle Ahouré who won the crown in 22.36s, while her team mate, Marie Ta Lou Gonezie placed second with 22.87s. Duncan returned a time of 22.98s while Asumnu and Regina George finished fifth and sixth respectively with 23.31s and 23.53s respectively.

In the men’s 200m, Nigeria’s only finalist, Divine Oduduru finished in sixth with a time of 20.81s, in the race that was won by Cote d’Ivoire’s Wilfried Koffi Hua who added the 200m title with an NR of 20.25s to the 100m crown he won two days earlier. Oduduru, who ran a wind-assisted 20.25s in Oregon last month to claim a World Junior Silver said after the race that Nigerians should expect more from him in the near future.
National Champion in the women’s triple jump, Blessing Ibukun Ibrahim, finished in third with a leap of 13.35m, behind Cameroun’s Joelle Mbumi who took gold in 14.02m, and Nadia Eke of Ghana (13.40m).

Overall Nigeria finished second on the medals table with eight gold, nine silver and seven bronze medals, while South Africa take over as the Continent’s Champions with ten gold, five silver and four bronze medals. Kenya (seven gold, eight silver, ten bronze medals), Botswana (four gold, one silver, one bronze) and Cote d’Ivoire (three gold, four silver, one bronze) completed the list of teams in the Top 5. It will be recalled that Nigeria emerged overall champions in the last edition of the Championship, which was held in Port Novo, Benin Republic two years ago.

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The Women's 4x100m have also won 4 consecutive AAC GOLD medals! nigerian women are truly the sprint queens of Africa!!

They are trying amidst difficulties

Kudos to them. This is what I yearn to see on front page. Not ebola news.

They should better invest wisely with d money dem go get cuz 1nce dey are used.Dem gonna be dumped.Nob 9ja we dey?

We are moving forward

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keep it up guyz..

Awesome

If only terrorists (humans and diseases) terrorizing Nigeria can come out and challenge our female athletes on the track and field, they'll all be history by now even though their days(terrorists) are numbered.
Nigeria female athletes doing Nigeria and Africa proud since Eve was created out of Adam.
God bless our athletes (males and females), God bless Nigeria.

Thumbs up to these lovely looking African Queens.

the girl on my far left tho

Beauriful girls, doing us proud.

Despite Boko H and ebola, Nigeria keeps shining...
the land is green

Make me self enter front page after many months abeg. I can't fit to shout jare....

Congratulations.
But hope they didn't go anywhere near zobo.

Congratulations

Na wao wetin I de fynd here sef

CFCfan: The Nigerian quartet of Patience George, Regina George, Ada Benjamin & Folashade Abugan won the gold in a time of 3 mins 28.87 seconds.

Kenya (3 mins 32.26 seconds) and Botswana (3 mins 40.28 seconds) came in 2nd and 3rd respectively.

Gold bless Nigeria

congratulobia!!!!!

Jux can't wait......


I want 2 see diz babes at d olympic......

A country that makes being Gay illegal and yet a Gay athlete is winning medals for it.. Gotta love my country though. .

TheRealAdonye: A country that makes being Gay illegal and yet a Gay athlete is winning medals for it.. Gotta love my country though. .

Who is the gay athlete?

Congrats to the golden girls!


BTW, the women's time of 3.28 mins gave them gold, while the men's time of 3.03 could only fetch silver. So much for equality of men and women!

comgrats,

On African Soil,dem neva born dia MaMa but on foreign soil, dey r learners

bad day for them,but nonetheless they tried