The Liberia team in Nigeria for the African Senior Track and Field Championships

A six-member team from Team Athletics Liberia, consisting of four athletes and two coaches, arrived in Asaba, Delta State, Nigeria to participate in the African Senior Athletics Championship.

Akeem Sirleaf, Wellington Zaza and coach Sayon Cooper, reportedly arrived from the United States at Abasa, while local athletes, Otricia Borkuah, Kadmiel Enders and coach Bill Sheriff, left the country yesterday and then arrive there for the competition.

Akeem will compete in the men's 200m Sprint competition, while Wellington will make 110m hurdles, Otricia and Kedmiel will take part in the women's and men's high jump, respectively.

The 21st African Senior Athletics Championships will be held from Wednesday to Sunday August 1-5, 2018.

At present, 25 countries are already registered and the current division indicates that 473 athletes Men have already been registered for the championships, while 400 women athletes have also registered for track and field events at the Stephen Keshi stadium in Asaba, in the state of Delta.

As a result, approximately 205 chaperones and athletes will be present for the flagship athletics competition in Africa.

defending champion – having won the last two editions in Marrakech, Morocco and Durban, South Africa. And the South Africans are already talking fiercely – while they're looking to buckle up a hat trick in Asaba even though other countries, like Nigeria, Kenya and Liberia, are ready for the pursuit of Asaba

. South Africa and Nigeria respectively won the leagues eight times, followed by Kenya three times and Algeria once.

Overvalued countries like Morocco, Tunisia, Senegal, and Ethiopia have never won the championships.

As for Liberia, she won only three bronze medals throughout the tournament in 38 years.

The African Championships in Athletics is a continental athletics event organized by the African Confederation of Athletics (CAA), the Continental Association for Sport in Africa. Since its inaugural edition in 1979, it was first intermittently organized with nine editions held in fourteen years until 1993. After the tenth edition in 1996, it was held every two years in even years and still stands the same year as the Summer Olympics. The last edition was held in Durban, South Africa, in June 2016.

The event included a men's marathon from 1979 to 1990. After being removed from the program, an African marathon championship was briefly disputed. The program of the event corresponds roughly to that of the International Association of Athletics Federations with the exception of the 50-kilometer race.