{"id":12797,"date":"2026-11-09T02:01:12","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T02:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/09\/nigeria-win-historic-youth-olympics-100m-golds\/"},"modified":"2026-11-09T02:01:12","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T02:01:12","slug":"nigeria-win-historic-youth-olympics-100m-golds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/09\/nigeria-win-historic-youth-olympics-100m-golds\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria win historic Youth Olympics 100m golds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"68\">\n<p><strong>Nigeria<\/strong> made history at the Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games on Sunday, sweeping the men\u2019s and women\u2019s 100m titles through Gift Bright and Rosemary Chigozie Nwankwo to become the first country to win both sprint crowns at the same edition of the competition.\n<\/p>\n<p>Bright powered to victory in the men\u2019s final in a personal best of 10.28 seconds, finishing ahead of China\u2019s Hangyu Zhang, who clocked 10.57 seconds, while Poland\u2019s Szymon Dolega claimed bronze in 10.61 seconds.\n<\/p>\n<p>The victory also made Bright the first Nigerian to win the men\u2019s 100m title at the Youth Olympics. He had underlined his medal credentials in the semi-finals, winning his heat in 10.34 seconds to qualify as the fastest entrant in the final.\n<\/p>\n<p>Nwankwo completed Nigeria\u2019s sprint double in the women\u2019s event, storming to gold in 11.16 seconds ahead of the United Arab Emirates\u2019 Arwa Ali (11.41 seconds) and Qatar\u2019s Dana Salem (11.48 seconds).<\/p>\n<p>The 17-year-old had also dominated her semi-final heat, clocking 11.53 seconds to qualify with the fastest time across both heats.\n<\/p>\n<p>Her victory made her the third Nigerian woman to win the Youth Olympics 100m title, following Josephine Omaka at Singapore 2010 and Rosemary Chukwuma at Buenos Aires 2018.\n<\/p>\n<p>The two gold medals opened Nigeria\u2019s medal account in Dakar, with the Games scheduled to run until November 13.<\/p>\n<p>The double triumph marks a significant achievement for Nigeria\u2019s young athletics contingent, giving the country a major boost as its athletes continue their quest for medals at the Games.\n                    <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div readability=\"14.852589641434\">\n<p> All rights reserved. This material, and other digital content on this website, may not be reproduced, published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed in whole or in part without prior express written permission from PUNCH.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contact\">Contact: <a href=\"\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection#d6a2beb3b3b2bfa2b9a496a6a3b8b5beb8b1f8b5b9bb\"> <span class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"c7b3afa2a2a3aeb3a8b587b7b2a9a4afa9a0e9a4a8aa\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/span> <\/a> <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Punch Newspapers &#8211; Latest News<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria made history at the Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games on Sunday, sweeping the men\u2019s and women\u2019s 100m titles through Gift Bright and Rosemary Chigozie Nwankwo to become the first&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}