Team Anambra is set to storm Ogun State with a contingent of one hundred and fifty members for the Twenty-Second National Sports Festival, tagged Gateway Games, which runs from May the sixteenth to the thirtieth.
Director of Sports in the state, Emeka Obidimma, told journalists in Awka on Wednesday that the delegation includes one hundred athletes and fifty officials.
He said the state will feature in twenty sporting events, including athletics, badminton, basketball, beach volleyball, boxing, chess, darts, deaf table tennis, karate, kickboxing, and wushu kung fu.
Other events are para athletics, scrabble, swimming, taekwondo, ncho, volleyball, weightlifting, and wrestling.
Obidimma noted that the team has just concluded a five-day intensive closed camping exercise in Awka ahead of their departure on Friday.
He commended the Chairman of the Anambra State Sports Commission, Patrick-Estate Onyedum, for providing administrative, technical, and logistical support.
According to him, the team is not just participating but is determined to surpass its previous performance.
“Our target is to meet and exceed our last record. The spirit in camp is high, and our athletes are ready to go for glory,” he said.
Obidimma also thanked Governor Chukwuma Soludo for his continued support for sports development in the state.
At the last National Sports Festival held in Asaba, Delta State, Anambra clinched a total of thirty-nine medals — six gold, nine silver, and twenty-four bronze.
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