Gombe Inter Schools Athletics Champ Gold Medalist Eyes African Record

Winner of the 1500m gold in the U-20 boys category of the ongoing Gombe State Inter-secondary Schools Athletics Championship, Lamech Danladi, has said that his target is to break the All Africa Games record in the event.

Speaking to journalists in a post race interview at Gombe Stadium in Pantami, Danladi, who also won gold and silver for Gombe State at the 2023 MTN Athletics Championship and National Youth Games in Jos and Asaba respectively, explained that with adequate preparations, he was confident of achieving the feat in the next five years.

Besides, Danladi, a SSS 3 student of Diocesan High School, Gombe, said he was also ready to represent Gombe State at the forthcoming National Sports Festival zonal elimination later in 2025.

The SSS 3 student, who named Jamaican sprint legend Usain Bolt, as his model, explained that he had been training in the past three months for the one week athletics competition.

Danladi, who praised his parents for supporting his athletics career, appealed to the Gombe State government to support athletes in the state to prepare for zonal and national sports competitions.

“I have been preparing for this competition in the last three months and winning the gold medal in the 1500m is well deserved.

”It is my dream to represent Gombe State at the National Sports Festival. I have represented the state in the last two editions of the National Youth Games, in which I won a bronze medal.

“I believe that I can compete on the national stage and my target now is to represent Team Gombe in the forthcoming National Sports Festival,” he said.