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Dakar 2026 Youth Olympics: Praise Ugoh wins 400m gold for Nigeria

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Nigeria's Praise Ugoh won the 400m at the Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games in 52.76 seconds, a personal best, giving Nigeria its third athletics title. She becomes the first Nigerian 400m champion at the Youth Olympics, after Rosemary Nwankwo and Gift Bright's 100m double on Sunday, reports ThisDay.

Nigeria's Praise Ugoh won the women's 400m final at the Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games on Monday in 52.76 seconds, her personal best. She finished ahead of Venezuela's Osmary Pacheco, who took silver in 52.85 seconds, and United Arab Emirates' Aisha Muhammed, who took bronze in 53.06 seconds, according to ThisDay.

With the victory, Ugoh becomes the first Nigerian to win the 400m title at the Youth Olympics and brings Nigeria's athletics gold-medal tally in Dakar to three. Her title follows victories by Rosemary Chigozie Nwankwo in the women's 100m, in 11.16 seconds, and Gift Bright in the men's 100m on Sunday. Nigeria had then achieved the men's and women's sprint title double for the first time at the same edition of the Youth Olympics.

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