{"id":11302,"date":"2026-02-24T04:31:52","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T04:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/?p=11302"},"modified":"2026-02-24T04:31:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T04:31:52","slug":"bayelsa-clinch-5-gold-medals-on-day-4-of-2nd-niger-delta-games-occupy-3rd-spot-in-medals-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/2026\/02\/24\/bayelsa-clinch-5-gold-medals-on-day-4-of-2nd-niger-delta-games-occupy-3rd-spot-in-medals-table\/","title":{"rendered":"Bayelsa Clinch 5 Gold Medals on Day 4 of 2nd Niger Delta Games   &#8212; Occupy 3rd Spot in Medals Table"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By David Owei,Bayelsa <\/p>\n<p>Team Bayelsa added 5 more gold medals to their tally on day 4 of competition at the ongoing 2nd Niger Delta Games, Edo 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Bayelsa won 5 gold medals on the opening day, and added 3 more gold medals the next day.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Bayelsa won 2 gold medals in Swimming, adding 1 silver and 1 bronze from the pool.<\/p>\n<p>They also earned 3 gold and 2 silver medals in Chess.<\/p>\n<p>Traditional Wrestling also raked in 1 silver and 1 bronze.<\/p>\n<p>As of Monday evening, Team Bayelsa are third in the overall medals table with 13 gold, 7 silver and 11 bronze giving a total of 31 medals after 4 days of action. <\/p>\n<p>Hosts, Edo State lead the medals table with 47 medals comprising 22 gold, 12 silver and 13 bronze.<\/p>\n<p>Delta are 2nd with 44 medals made up of 14 gold, 19 silver and 11 bronze.<\/p>\n<p>Abia are 4th, Cross River 5th, Rivers 6th , Akwa Ibom 7th and Imo 8th while Ondo are bottom with 2 gold, 1 silver and 5 bronze bringing their total to 8 medals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By David Owei,Bayelsa Team Bayelsa added 5 more gold medals to their tally on day 4 of competition at the ongoing 2nd Niger Delta Games, Edo 2026. Bayelsa won 5 gold medals on the opening day, and added 3 more gold medals the next day. On Monday, Bayelsa won 2 gold medals in Swimming, adding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[812,3281],"class_list":["post-11302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-competition","tag-ongoing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11304,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11302\/revisions\/11304"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}