Tag: Team Nigeria
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Africa Games: Dominant Nigeria lifters win nine gold medals In weightlifting on Monday
Nigeria weightliers on Monday showed class and dominance as they won all the nine gold medals on display on Day 3 of the Weightlifting event at the on-going 2023 Africa Games in Ghana. The 55kg and 59kg women categories and 67kg men category gold medals were won by Nigerians. At the Africa Games, nine medals…
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13th African Games: Team Nigeria scoops six Gold medals in wrestling
Team Nigeria on Sunday night scooped six gold medals in different categories of female wrestling event at the ongoing 13th African Games. Nigeria’s wrestling star, Blessing Oborodudu began the gold medal haul after defeating Blandine Nyeh Ngiri of Cameroon 14-4.
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Olympics Qualifier: Team Nigeria wins 6 medals at weightlifting championship in Egypt
Team Nigeria weightlifters, Rafiatu Folashade Lawal and Adijat Adenike Olarinoye on Monday won six medals at the ongoing 2024 Africa Senior Weightlifting Championship in Egypt. Competing in the 59kg women’s category, Lawal and Adijat dominated the category
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Nse Uko powers Nigeria’s women relay squad to Budapest
Team Nigeria women’s 4x400m relay squad, on Friday, secured their ticket to the Budapest 2023 World Athletics Championships at the Deji Tinubu-Lagos Series, which ended at Yaba Technical College. Nigeria and two West African countries, Ghana and Benin Republic, battled for the relay qualification marks in Lagos, on Friday.
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Commonwealth Games: X-raying Team Nigeria’s Remarkable Outing
The 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth games held in the United Kingdom has been dubbed the best outing for team Nigeria in the history of the competition. Interestingly, team Nigeria’s 12 gold medals at the 2022 Commonwealth Games were won by female athletes, the medal haul of 35 is the highest the country has ever amassed since…
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Commonwealth Games: Amusan, Brume, others eye gold in athletics
The world record holder, Tobi Amusan and long jumper Ese Brume will hope to replicate the fine form that saw them reach podium finish at the just concluded games in Oregon, America. Both athletes will again, compete in the finals of the 100meteres hurdles and long jump.
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Commonwealth Games: Team Nigeria increases medal haul to 30, claim Shot put gold, bronze
The duo of Eucharia Iyiazi and Ugochi Alam won gold and bronze respectively in the women’s F55-57 Shot Put final at the ongoing Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games on Saturday to increase Nigeria medal haul to 30. Both athletes’ efforts moved Team Nigeria up to seventh place in the medal standings with nine gold, eight silver…
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Another Nigerian breaks world record at Commonwealth Games
Nigeria’s Paralympian Nwachukwu Chiemerie and Folashade Oluwafemiayo grabbed 2 gold medals in Para Discus and Para Powerlifting respectively, while Bose Omolayo and Nnamdi Innocent added silver and bronze medals to increase the country”s haul to 12 in total at the ongoing Commonwealth games holding in Birmingham.
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Commonwealth Games: India cause pain for Nigeria’s table tennis team
India has defeated Nigeria by a 3-0 margin to reach another Commonwealth Games doubles final. Meanwhile, another Indian Sharath Kamal defeated world number 15, Aruna Quadri in the Men’s single competition.
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Commonwealth Games: First Batch of Team Nigeria’s contingent arrives in Birmingham
The first batch of Team Nigeria’s contingent to the 2022 Commonwealth Games has arrived in Birmingham, the host city of the event. The team left the country on Saturday in two groups via the Murtala Mohammed International Airport in Lagos and Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport in Abuja. Musa Oshodi, president of the Nigeria Judo Federation,…