At the 11th All-Africa University Games on Thursday, the women’s 4×100- and 4×400-meter relay quartets from Team UNILAG won gold in both events, but in the other competitions, three of the five participating Ghanaian institutions stole the show.
In the women’s 4×100- and 4×400-meter relays, Team UNILAG won gold, silver, and bronze in the same order, placing them far ahead of their rivals and co-hosts, Lagos State University and the Lagos State University of Science and Technology, Ikorodu.
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.
