By Amaechi Agbo

Enugu State team at the ongoing 2024 National Sports Festival has amassed five more medals at the ongoing to scale-up their medal hauls with six medals on Saturday

Again, Emmanuel Ugonna who won the state’s first gold medal in javelin on Friday, followed it up with two silver medals on Saturday in both javelin and discuss with throws of 45.48 meters in F44 javelin and 51.35 meters in F44 categories.  

His heroics were followed by Destiny Agbo’s two silver medals in female F52 in javelin and discuss after throwing 32.16 metres and 29.32 metres, respectively.

Goodness Okonkwo, also won silver medal in F57 category, when she threw 21.17 metres in Javelin while Lucy Ejike won silver in Powerlifting.

It is gratifying to note that all the 5 silver medals from javelin and discuss came from para-athletics. Team Enugu now has seven medals  including a gold and six silver.

Team Enugu is expected to continue the medal haul today and going forward as more events get underway across venues in the Gateway State