{"id":44007,"date":"2022-07-19T17:30:09","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T15:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/cycling\/cycling-nigeria-finishes-in-fourth-place-at-2022-african-track-championship\/"},"modified":"2022-07-19T17:30:09","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T15:30:09","slug":"cycling-nigeria-finishes-in-fourth-place-at-2022-african-track-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/cycling\/cycling-nigeria-finishes-in-fourth-place-at-2022-african-track-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Cycling: Nigeria Finishes in Fourth Place at 2022 African Track Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"press-body-in\">\n                            <span><br \/>\n                                                            ABUJA, Nigeria, July 19, 2022\/APO Group\/ &#8212;<br \/>\n                                                        <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Nigeria finished in fourth place at the 2022 African Track Cycling Championship which ended on Sunday at the velodrome of the Moshood Abiola National Stadium, Abuja.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Team Nigeria won a total of 16 medals, which consist of four gold, eight silver and four bronze medals.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa finished first, topping the medals table with a total number of 42 medals made up of 20 gold, 13 silver and nine bronze.<\/p>\n<p>Egypt followed in second place with 26 medals consisting of eight gold, eight silver and 10 bronze medal.<\/p>\n<p>Third place went to Algeria with 17 medals consisting of five gold, five silver and seven bronze.<\/p>\n<p>Team Morocco ended the Championships in fifth place with four gold, five sliver and four bronze with 13 medals while Benin Republic and Cote d Ivoire had one bronze medal each.<\/p>\n<p>15 countries that participated in the Championship which was competed for in 11 different events; Sprint, team sprint, Time trials (1km\/ 500m), Keirin, team pursuit.<\/p>\n<p>Others were individual pursuit, Scratch, elimination, Omnium, points race and Madison for women\u2019s, men\u2019s and juniors categories.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/press\/cycling-nigeria-finishes-in-fourth-place-at-2022-african-track-championship?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABUJA, Nigeria, July 19, 2022\/APO Group\/ &#8212; Nigeria finished in fourth place at the 2022 African Track Cycling Championship which ended on Sunday at the velodrome of the Moshood Abiola National Stadium, Abuja. Team Nigeria won a total of 16 medals, which consist of four gold, eight silver and four bronze medals. South Africa finished [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44008,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/uploads\/socialshare.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3260],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/uploads\/socialshare.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}