Results released on Monday, December 5, 2022, day 5, at the ongoing 21st National Sports Festival in Asaba, Delta State shows that Cross River State currently sits at number 30 out of the 37 States, including the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
On like the host, Delta State with 127 medals, Cross River State has only managed one medal (bronze), joining the likes of Bauchi (1), Enugu (1), Niger (1), Adamawa (0), Borno (0), Gombe (0), Yobe (0), and Zamfara (0) as the worst states so far in the competition.
Team Cross River’s only medal so far also came on the 5th day of the competition.
The bronze medal was won by Vivian and Idorenyin in the Table Tennis Women double.
On like in Abuja 2018, where the state won 21 medals, in Asaba 2022, Cross River went with 360 athletes, yet, has only won a single medal (bronze).
The current Chairman of the Cross River State Sports Commission, Emmanuel Elom who revealed this last month when the state received the torch in Calabar, also said that the athletes have been training for the past 3 months and are prepared to win big.
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“We are going with a large contingent of 360 athletes and officials.
“We hope to make better impacts because we going for sports that we know we can better excel. These include swimming, table tennis, tennis, wrestling, boxing, kickboxing, judo, kung fu and chess amongst others.
“We’re very prepared. We started preparing actively for this festival over three months ago. We want to take Asaba 2022 by storm,” Elom said in an interview in November.
Recall that in 2018, the Rt. Hon. Orok Duke-led Sports Commission took less than 100 athletes to Abuja and won 21 medals in total.
Out of the 21 medals, Team Cross River State won 5 Gold, 10 Silver and 6 Bronze.
Results from the 2018 National Sports Festival in Abuja (Team Cross River)
1. Men’s Weight Lifting 135kg Snatch (Felix Ekpo) – Gold
2. Women’s Table Tennis Team (Cecilia Otuakpan Ime, Janet Friday, Vivian Oku and Ofonime Ebong) – Gold
3. Women’s Table Tennis Double (Cecilia Otuakpan and Janet Friday) – Gold
4. Men’s 10,000m Marathon (Ishmael Sadjo) – Gold
5. Men’s 800meters (Amaga Suji) – Gold
6. Women Table Tennis Singles (Cecilia Otu-Akpan) – Silver
7. Men’s Weight Lifting (Felix Ekpo) – Silver
8. Men’s Weight Lifting (Felix Ekpo) – Silver
9. Women’s 50m Freestyle Swimming – Silver
10. Women’s Weight Lifting 64kg Weight; Snatch (Esther Patrick) – Silver
11. Women’s Weight Lifting 64kg Weight; Clean and Jerk (Esther Patrick) – Silver
12. Women’s Weight Lifting 64kg Weight; Snatch and Clean and Jerk (Esther Patrick) – Silver
13. Men’s 75kg Boxing (Ubi Obono) – Silver
14. Men’s Wrestling (John Arikpo) – Silver
15. Women’s Wrestling (Mary Bassey Effiong) – Silver
16. Women’s Wrestling (Rita Driver) – Silver
17. Men’s Weight Lifting 67kg (Felix Ekpo) – Bronze
18. Men’s Para-swimming (Charles Inyang) – Bronze
19. Men’s Table Tennis Double (Etim Orok and Solomon Mathias) – Bronze
20. Men’s Karate (Francis Rostum- Bronze
21. Men’s Wrestling (Williams Bassey Bakassi) – Bronze
Total Medals = 21
Gold = 5
Silver = 10
Bronze = 6
