N5.8M UP FOR GRABS AT LAGOS INTERNATIONAL SWIMMING CLASSICS

In continuation of the series of events lined up for the Lagos Sports Classics, the Main Organising Committee (MOC) has staked over N5.8milion for the four-day Lagos International Swimming Classics. The swimming classics is expected to commence on November 7 to 10 at Teslim Balogun Stadium with athletes competing in the open and schools categories.

According to the Chairman of MOC, Wahid Oshodi, the classics is being organized to expose athletes to international standard and also to attract top athletes to the tournament. “The swimming classics is also one of the series of events line up for the Lagos Sports Classics and we hope to stage another world class event just we had done during the table tennis and chess tournaments,” he said.

Over 300 swimmers are expected to jostle for honours at the championship with most of Nigeria’s top swimmers yearning to be part of the competition. The tournament director, Babatunde Fatai-Williams, the tournament has been sanctioned by the African Swimming Confederation (CANA) and it hopes to attract the best swimmers in the continent.

“Hopefully by this week, we will be able to confirm the profile of the some of the foreign swimmers that will grace the championship. However, the Nigerian swimmers who are going to participate in the classics category (open) were mostly selected based on their performance at the recent 5h Chief of the Naval Staff Open Swimming Championship held last month in Oghara, Delta State, along with a few wild card entries from some states that did not participate in the championship,” he said.