IAAF honours Ogba as 206 nations set for World Championships

President of the IAAF, Lamine Diack  will, on August 9, decorate the President of the Athletic Federation of Nigeria, Chief Solomon Ogba with the  Moscow 2013 – IAAF Veteran Pin.


The award which holds in Moscow on the eve of the World championships, Sports Vanguard gathered is in recognition of Ogba’s contributions to the development of athletics in Nigeria.

Ogba’s reign as President of the AFN has seen Nigeria compete in numerous athletics championships including the Diamond League. Most of the trips by Team Nigeria are sponsored by Ogba.

“The IAAF will honour Ogba for his efforts at ensuring Nigeria regained her pride of place in world athletics,” an AFN source said.

The IAAF World Championships Moscow 2013, which will take place in the Russian capital from 10 to 18 August 2013, is set to be the biggest ever IAAF championship.

With the deadline for the final entries now closed, no fewer than 206 IAAF member federations have confirmed their participation.

The previous highest number of nations present at an IAAF World Championships was 200 at both Seville 1999 and Berlin 2009.

With a total of 1974 athletes having been entered (1106 men and 868 women), the record of participants is also on course to be broken as the previously most attended championships in terms of athletes was Berlin 2009 with 1895.