{"id":82607,"date":"2026-02-10T07:12:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T07:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=82607"},"modified":"2026-02-10T07:12:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T07:12:20","slug":"enekwechi-finishes-fifth-at-madrid-indoor-meet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/02\/10\/enekwechi-finishes-fifth-at-madrid-indoor-meet\/","title":{"rendered":"Enekwechi Finishes Fifth at Madrid Indoor Meet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Samuel Adeola<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nigerian shot put star Chukwuebuka Enekwechi finished fifth at the Madrid World Indoor Tour after recording a best throw of 20.38 metres in a highly competitive field.<\/p>\n<p>The national record holder faced world-class opponents who posted early-season marks above 21 metres.<\/p>\n<p>American Jordan Geist won the event with a throw of 22.04m, while Jamaica\u2019s Rajindra Campbell placed second with 21.94m. Another American, Roger Steen, finished third with 21.88m.<\/p>\n<p>Despite missing the podium, Enekwechi\u2019s performance is seen as positive as he continues preparations for major competitions later in the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola Nigerian shot put star Chukwuebuka Enekwechi finished fifth at the Madrid World Indoor Tour after recording a best throw of 20.38 metres in a highly competitive field. The national record holder faced world-class opponents who posted early-season marks above 21 metres. American Jordan Geist won the event with a throw of 22.04m, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":82608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,175],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-82607","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\/82607","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=82607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82609,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82607\/revisions\/82609"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}