The biannual national sporting event is classified as the Nigerian Olympic Games.
35 states and FCT Abuja won a total of 2,652 medals in 38 different games.
Delta dominates again
Host Delta State finished atop the medal table with 648 medals, 320 gold medals, 200 silver medals, and 128 bronze medals.
Bayelsa State finished in second place with a total of 337 medals, 132 gold medals, 115 silver medals, and 90 bronze medals, while Edo State finished third with 339 medals, 78 gold medals, 94 silver medals, and 167 medals. made of bronze.
Oyo State finished fourth on the record to set a record of winning 50 gold medals at a single national sports festival, the state won 163 medals, 51 silver and 62 bronze.
Lagos finished fifth with 172 medals, 41 gold medals, 57 silver medals, and 74 bronze medals.
Rivers, Kano, Ogun, FCT Abuja and Akwa Ibom are placed sixth to ten on the log table.
Oyo State set a record
At the end of the final medal table published by the organizers, the Oyo team set a record of winning 50 gold medals for the first time in the state’s history at the National Sports Festival.
Oyo finished sixth in Edo after winning 103 medals, with 31 gold, 30 silver, and 42 bronze.
Oyo State finished fourth on the record with 163 medals, 50 gold, 51 silver and 62 bronze medals.
The state surpasses its record of winning 31 gold medals at the 20th edition of the festival in Edo state.
Oyo finished sixth in Edo after winning 103 medals, with 31 gold, 30 silver, and 42 bronze.
Zamfara came, saw and did not win
The Zamfara team is the only state that did not win a single medal in the National Sports Festival, they came to the festival and saw action, but they could not conquer the Delta state.
The state did not level in the last edition in the state of Edo where he won three medals, one gold and two bronze.
New world record in the Delta State
Esther Nworgu set a new world record in the Women’s Para-Powerlifting event.
Nworgu lifted 115 at 41kg to break the record he set at the 2022 African Para Powerlifting in Cairo, Egypt in October of 114kg.
She surpassed China’s Guo Lingling’s world record of 111kg, which was set in June earlier this year.
Boxer dies after receiving knockout punch
It was a huge loss for the Imo State contingents when one boxer, Chukwuemeka Igboanugo, died after receiving a technical knockout punch.
The boxer was punched in the chin by Anambra’s Gaby Amagor in their 86 kg category in their fight.
The boxer was rushed to the hospital, but gave up on the ghost.
