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Day 3 of the ongoing Niger Delta Sports Festival (NDSF) was packed with thrilling action across various disciplines, from intense indoor competitions at the Godswill Akpabio Stadium to exciting football, combat sports, and team events as well as aquatic contests in swimming and canoeing.
In Swimming, Delta State dominated in the 50m Butterfly Finals and the men’s team event winning the gold medal in both.
It was a rush of wins for Imo State in Traditional Wrestling where the state claimed a combined six wins out of eight semi finals contests in men and women categories to reach the finals.
Edo State’s Raheem Ridwan defeated his Ondo State opponent, Ojo Victor to win 5-0 in the under 63kg weight
category.
Uraiah Patrick of Delta State won the gold in men’s Chess Rapid Event while the silver went to Ekunke Odey Goodness of Bayelsa State.
Bayelsa State made a clean sweep of medals in the Women’s category of the Chess Rapid Event with Deborah Ebimobo winning the gold beating her fellow Bayelsan, Pelomoh Jessica who took the Silver while
Ebiakpo Sunshine and Osayande Kingsley from Edo were joint third.
At the Dakkada Skills Acquisition Centre, Team Akwa Ibom triumphed over Team Edo in the women’s doubles quarterfinals of Tennis while in the singles event, Edo’s Lorelay Holzendorff outlasted Olaniyan Adesewa in a marathon quarterfinal that lasted over 90 minutes, winning in two tiebreaks 5-4(2), 5-4(5). She will now face Etoro Bassey (Akwa Ibom) in the semifinals.
Day 5 of events opened with a demonstration Golf Kitty at the Ibom Icon Hotel Golf Resort and the day promises more excitement as finals in several indoor sports and athletics/para-athletics events will take centre stage.
Events scheduled to hold their finals include, Shot Put F/40 Women Final (Para-weightlifting), Triple Jump Women Final and Para-athletics Hammer Throw Women Final.
There will also be podium battles for all categories in Swimming and in Tradional Wrestling and weight lifting.
