By our Reporter
After days of various competitions at the Edo 2020 sport festival,team Delta has emerged as the champions of the 20th National Sports Festival (NSF) as curtains fall on the competition on Wednesday at the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium, Edo with Edo and Bayelsa team coming second and third.
Team Delta ranks high at the medals table by winning 158 gold, 116 silver, and 110 bronze, while Team Edo, the host, came second with 129 gold, 104 silver and 108 bronze. Team Bayelsa finished a distant third with 56 gold, 55 silver, and 58 bronze.
From recoed,the victory for team Delta is the 6th consecutive NSF wins.
The festival which lasted for 12 days of sporting festival lasted with fondly memories: Bayelsa’s Ifiezegbe Gagbe won 15 medals at the swimming event to emerge the most decorated athlete of the games; Amina Idris of Lagos state also gained global stardom when she won gold in Taekwondo Poomsae despite being heavy with an eight-month-old pregnancy; 10-year-old Stephanie Onusiriuka won three medals in gymnastics.
It would be recalled that the games which was meant to have held was postponed at different times due to COVID-19 that eventually led to it being staged in April 2021 — a full year from its initial schedule.
It was held and successfully completed despite reports of claims from the Local Organising Committee (LOC) to cancel the event due to financial constraints.
Here are the top 10 states:
Team Gold Silver Bronze
Delta 158 116 110
Edo 129 104 108
Bayelsa 56 55 58
Rivers 33 34 61
Lagos 32 40 54
Oyo 31 30 42
Akwa Ibom 20 24 44
Ogun 16 23 39
Kano 11 22 33
Imo 10 13 26