Team Lagos completed almost completed a clean sweep of medals of the swimming event at the Dawn games, Lagos 2014.
The swimming pool of the Teslim Balogun Stadium Surulere, was the venue of this Epoch making event, and a sizeable crowd was on hand to witness history being made.
The Lagos team won 30 Gold medals from a possible 32 with 27 Silver and 3 Bronze.
Morayo Okungbowa
Star of the swimming event and arguably star of the tournament is Okungbowa Morayo of Lagos, who won 10 Gold 1 Silver and 2 Bronze medals to a make a total of 13 medals, the highest haul of medals by any individual athlete at the DAWN Games so far
This achievement will definitely be impossible for any other athlete at this games to surpass or even match.
Oyo came 2nd on the Swimming medals table with 2 Gold medals 3 Silver and 22 bronze medals, while Ogun state came 3rd with no Gold, 2 Silver and 7 bronze medals.
The kind of display put by Morayo Okungbowa and other young athletes at the DAWN Games only confirms the fact that this country is blessed with a lot of talent and its grassroots competitions like this that we need to harness the various hidden talents across the Nation
Sola Rogers.
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