The second leg in the
series of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) All Nigeria Relays Competition
will Saturday, March 23, see over 500 athletes taking part at Warri City Stadium.
Coordinator of the All Nigeria Relays, national long jump record holder, Yusuf Ali said the Warri edition will be all field events.
He said this is so, because the federation will be using the events to test run its latest acquired equipment, the Estimated Distance Measurement (EDM) which will also be used during the Africa Youth Athletics Championship in same venue in Warri next week.
Coordinator of the All Nigeria Relays, national long jump record holder, Yusuf Ali said the Warri edition will be all field events.
He said this is so, because the federation will be using the events to test run its latest acquired equipment, the Estimated Distance Measurement (EDM) which will also be used during the Africa Youth Athletics Championship in same venue in Warri next week.
“I can confirm that over 500
athletes will be taking part in the Warri leg of the All Nigeria Relays but we
will be concentrating on the field events this weekend.
“The relays will return in
our next meeting.
Elaborating on the EDM, Ali
said, “We just bought a Timetronics device for the Warri event. It is the first
time that we will be using EDM (Estimated Distance Measurement) device in
Nigeria and this means that officiating officials will no longer use tapes to
measure distances in events like Long Jump, Javelin etc.
The Warri event is the second
leg in the series of the All Nigeria Relays, an initiative of the president of
the Athletics Federation of Nigeria in other to see Nigeria
The Warri leg will see
athletes taking part in the long, high and triple jumps, shot put, discuss throw,
pole vault and other field events and it is going to be a morning and afternoon
session with a three hour break from 12pm
to 3pm .
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