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Okoya-Thomas Ttennis Championship is going Nationalthis Daylive
Femi Solaja
After 55 uninterrupted years of sponsorship, the annual Molade Okoya-Thomas Table Tennis Championships have been transformed to embrace players across the length and width of the nation.
The annual event is the longest running table tennis competition in Africa and will be a national event that starts this year.
In 1968 initiated by the late Sir Molade Okoya-Thomas, the tournament produced some of Nigerias best table tennis stars, including the legendary Atanda Musa, the late Yomi Bankole, Bose Kaffo and Evergreen Olufunke Oshonaike.
During a press conference that marked the start of the 56th edition in Lagos yesterday, Deji Okoya-Thomas announced that the family decided to extend the tournament to a national level because of numerous professions of table tennis stakeholders inside and outside of Nigeria.
This year is particularly special, because the tournament goes beyond Lagos State to become a national event for the first time since its founding in 1968. He explained the environment that brings their best.
He added that this tournament remains the longest -running table tennis competition in Nigeria and Africa, where many participants achieve continental and international success. Before his death in 2015, the late business Mogul promised that the tournament would survive him, and we are proud to see that his promise has been fulfilled, in which the tournament continues to bloom for 11 years.
Chairman of the National Sports Commission (NSC), Shehu Dikko, praised the family to maintain the inheritance of the initiator of the competition, while promising the dedication of governments to support sports development.
Dikko has praised the family for their dedication since the death of the initiator in 2015 and emphasized that talents discovered through such tournaments would be supported to achieve stage finishes at large events such as the Olympic and Commonwealth Games.
President of ITTF Africa, Wahid Enitan Oshodi, noted that the tournament has become a breeding ground for table tennis stars in Nigeria, with many national team players who come from the tournament.
This year's event also marks the 10th anniversary of the death of the late business Mogul. More than 355 players (231 male and 124 female) will participate in 13 events, including singles, Doubles, mixed Doubles, Para, Dove and Veter's categories, with improved prize money. Participants are drawn from 21 states and 67 clubs throughout the country, where the Mens Singles category attracts the highest number of entries at 109.
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