Gateway Games 2024: Lagos Tops Table, Wins 13 Team Sports Slots At Zonal Elimination Contests In Ibadan

The Zonal Elimination for Team Sports for the 22nd National Sports Festival, Gateway Games, Ogun 2024 ended on Thursday with Lagos State winning 13 tickets out of the 16 available slots in the southwest tournament.

Team Lagos won both the male and female tickets in the Football, Basketball, Handball, Cricket, Hockey events. The state also won tickets in the Beach Volleyball (male) and Volleyball (female) and mixed doubles slot in Abule female game.

According to the post event sited by P.M. EXPRESS, Team Lagos took first position in eight sports while they won second position in five sports. The sports the team failed to pick a ticket include male volleyball, female beach volleyball, male and female Abula game.

Interestingly, Team Lagos during the just concluded zonal elimination won a ticket in at least one sport to show their dominant factor in southwest sports.