Tag: Edem.
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Edem crashes out as Team Nigeria suffers another loss at Paris Olympics
Offiong Edem lost to Brazil’s Bruna Takahashi 4-0 on Sunday to add to Team Nigeria’s losing run at the ongoing Olympic Games in Paris. Edem lost 8-11 4-11 11-13 10-12 in her Round of 64 match in the women’s singles event of the table tennis competition.
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Oshonaike, Edem dumped out of 2022 African Cup Championships
The duo of top rated Nigerian table tennis stars, veteran seven time Olympian, Funke Oshonaike and Offiong Edem have been dumped out of the ongoing International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF), African Cup Championships. Nigeria is hosting the annual ITTF Africa Cup in Lagos at the Molade Okoya-Thomas Hall inside the Teslim Balogun Stadium, Surulere, with…
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Tokyo 2020: U.S. Zhang too strong for Nigeria’s Edem in table tennis women single
Offiong Edem on Monday bowed out of the women’s singles event of the table tennis competition at the ongoing 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Edem lost 4-1 to Lily Zhang of the U.S at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium, in spite of winning the first set 15-13. After…
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Quadri, Omotayo drop in ITTF ranking, Edem remains best-ranked Nigerian female
Nigeria’s duo of Aruna Quadri and Olajide Omotayo have dropped in the April 2020 ranking released on Thursday by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF). In spite of this however, Quadri still maintains his status as the highest-rated African player in the world. Quadri, who is still recuperating from the thigh injury he sustained during…