{"id":82193,"date":"2026-01-27T05:58:02","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T05:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=82193"},"modified":"2026-01-27T05:58:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T05:58:02","slug":"enekwechi-kicks-off-2026-with-orlen-cup-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/01\/27\/enekwechi-kicks-off-2026-with-orlen-cup-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Enekwechi Kicks Off 2026 With Orlen Cup Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Samuel Adeola<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nigeria\u2019s shot put star, Chukwuebuka Enekwechi, opened his 2026 season in style, winning the men\u2019s event at the Orlen Cup in \u0141\u00f3d\u017a, Poland, a World Athletics Indoor Tour Silver meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Enekwechi dominated with a best throw of 20.82m, ahead of Romania\u2019s Andrei Toader (20.55m) and Serbia\u2019s Armin Sinan\u010devi\u0107 (19.93m). Poland\u2019s Szymon Mazur and Italy\u2019s Nick Ponzio rounded out the top five.<\/p>\n<p>The victory marked a breakthrough for Enekwechi, who had finished second at the Orlen Cup in 2024 and 2025. A two-time African champion, African Games winner (2019, 2023), and 2018 Commonwealth Games silver medallist, he confirmed his status as Nigeria\u2019s leading shot putter.<\/p>\n<p>His performance signals a strong start to 2026, building momentum ahead of major continental and international competitions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola Nigeria\u2019s shot put star, Chukwuebuka Enekwechi, opened his 2026 season in style, winning the men\u2019s event at the Orlen Cup in \u0141\u00f3d\u017a, Poland, a World Athletics Indoor Tour Silver meeting. Enekwechi dominated with a best throw of 20.82m, ahead of Romania\u2019s Andrei Toader (20.55m) and Serbia\u2019s Armin Sinan\u010devi\u0107 (19.93m). Poland\u2019s Szymon Mazur [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":82194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,175],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-82193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82195,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82193\/revisions\/82195"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}