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Team Nigeria’s only medal hope in the boys 200m, Ejowokoghene Divine Oduduru Sunday finished sixth to take the country to the 30th position on the placing table, as the 8th IAAF World Youth Championship ended in Donetsk, Ukraine.Oduduru, who injured himself in the race, returned a time of 21.37 seconds. Having been admitted in the IAAF Medical centre soon after the race, he was replaced in the boys medley relay event, where Nigeria finished 7th.Jamaican Michael O’Hara won the 200m in 20.63 seconds, while Brazil’s Victor Hugo Dos Santos and Cuba’s Reynier Mena were second and third respectively.Oduduru’s sixth place finish, moved Team Nigeria from 39th position to 30th. The country finished 5ft in the girls 400m and 8th in the boys’ 110m hurdles.Though no medals were won, Team Nigeria was able to reach four finals as against the three finals at the last edition in France.Top athletics countries such as Bahamas, Colombia, Belgium, Canada and The Netherlands occupied between the 43rd and 52nd positions at the close of events yesterday.Jamaica with six gold and two bronze medals was top on the table, followed by Kenya (four gold, three silver and four bronze.Australia and Ethiopia had three gold medals, while the United States finished with two gold medals. Hosts, Ukraine had one gold.
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