Lagos State has been confirmed as host for the 22nd edition of the African
Senior Athletics Championship, billed to hold between June 23 and 27, 2021 at the
Teslim Balogun stadium, Surulere.
In a statement issued in Cairo, Egypt yesterday, Kalkaba Malboum, President of the
Confederation of African Athletics and Sunday Dare, the Honourable Minister of
Youth and Sports Development of Nigeria, the Centre of Excellence was affirmed to
host the crème de la crème of African athletics in an event that will serve as the last
qualifying event for African athletes for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
This will be the third time Nigeria will be hosting the Championship after Lagos
(1989) and Asaba (2018) hosted the sixth and the 21st editions respectively.
Nigeria has now tied with Egypt as the two African countries to host the
championships three times since the inaugural edition in 1979 in Dakar, Senegal.
