{"id":29169,"date":"2020-08-26T13:30:27","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T13:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=29169"},"modified":"2020-08-26T13:30:27","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T13:30:27","slug":"nigerian-teenager-rules-australia-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerian-teenager-rules-australia-sports","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian teenager rules Australia sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n<p>Following on the exploits of mixed martial arts star, Israel Adesanya, in New Zealand, another Nigerian youngster, Prosper Nwoko, has taken the Australasian region\u2019s sports by storm, this time in Australian athletics.<\/p>\n<p>Nwoko recently beat all comers to win the country\u2019s Summer Set College Athletics Meet in Queensland.He returned at the time of 10.91 seconds to pick the 100m gold at the meet to continue his dominance of the U-18 category in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The Queensland-based school boy sensation was also the winner of the boys\u2019 U18 100m, as well as 200m at the 2019 Australia All Schools Championships, where he ran 10.77 (+2.4) to win the gold in the 100m race, and 21.49 seconds for the 200m. The feat has earned him scholarship from the Austrian government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat talent has got him scholarship in a prestigious college here, which he attends. He is in grade 11 and we can\u2019t stop thanking God. Where would I have seen money for such school?\u201d his mother, Mrs. Joy Smart Nwoko, said.<\/p>\n<p>Nwoko, who turned 17 on July 7, 2020, was preparing to lead Australia to the World U-20 Athletics Championships before the outbreak of the Coronavirus pandemic led to the cancellation of the event Nwoko\u2019s parents hail from Rivers State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria: Following on the exploits of mixed martial arts star, Israel Adesanya, in New Zealand, another Nigerian youngster, Prosper Nwoko, has taken the Australasian region\u2019s sports by storm, this time in Australian athletics. Nwoko recently beat all comers to win the country\u2019s Summer Set College Athletics Meet in Queensland.He returned at the time of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":29173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,18],"tags":[174,115],"class_list":["post-29169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","tag-football-in-nigeria","tag-nigerian-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nigerian teenager rules Australia sports - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:Following on the exploits of mixed martial arts star, Israel Adesanya, in New Zealand, another Nigerian youngster,\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerian-teenager-rules-australia-sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nigerian teenager rules Australia sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:Following on the exploits of mixed martial arts star, Israel Adesanya, in New Zealand, another Nigerian youngster,\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerian-teenager-rules-australia-sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-08-26T13:30:27+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/08\/Daniel-Amokachi-1-320x240-1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"320\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"240\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerian-teenager-rules-australia-sports#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerian-teenager-rules-australia-sports\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"Nigerian teenager rules Australia sports\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-08-26T13:30:27+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerian-teenager-rules-australia-sports\"},\"wordCount\":211,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerian-teenager-rules-australia-sports#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/08\/Daniel-Amokachi-1-320x240-1.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Football in Nigeria\",\"Nigerian sports\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Sport\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerian-teenager-rules-australia-sports#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerian-teenager-rules-australia-sports\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerian-teenager-rules-australia-sports\",\"name\":\"Nigerian teenager rules Australia sports - 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