Tag: Weightlifting
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Paris 2024: 2024: Nigeria’s Weightlifter, Rafiatu Lawal begins quest for medal in weightlifting
Nigeria’s Weightlifters at the ongoing Paris 2024 Olympic Games will begin chase for medals on Thursday, August 8th, 2024 when Rafiatu Lawal files
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Olympics: Joy Eze hopes to make record debut in Weightlifting
As the Weightlifting event starts on Wednesday, August 7, Nigeria’s weightlifter, Joy Ogbonne Eze who will be competing in the women’s 71kg category has affirmed that making a lasting impression in Paris 2024 remains her dreams in her Olympics debut.
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Paris Olympic: Debutant Rafiatu Lawal targets podium finish in Weightlifting
One of Nigeria’s weightlifters to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, Rafiatu Lawal remains confident of podium finishing despite facing the rest of the world at the quadrennial event for the first time.
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13th African Games: Team Nigeria finish second in weightlifting
The weightlifting event at the ongoing African gams has ended with team Nigeria finishing second in the category. Both male and female lifters won a total of 32 medals comprising of Gold, Silver and Bronze. Nigerian lifters won 16 gold, 10 silver and 6 bronze medals to come second behind leading country Egypt.
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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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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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Asaba 2022: Stay out of drugs – Dr Abdul charges lifters
The President, Nigeria Weightlifting Federation, NWF Dr Ibrahim Abdul has charged the lifters to eschew drug usage and compete for honour as the weightlifting event begins on Monday at the National Sports Festival, NSF, Delta 2022
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Commonwealth Games: Yusuf clinches fourth medal for Nigeria
Nigerian Weightlifter, Islamiyat Yusuf has won the fourth medal for the country at the ongoing 2022 Commonwealth Games holding in Birmingham, United Kingdom. Yusuf clinched the bronze medal in the women’s weightlifting 64kg event after lifting a combined total of 212kg from both the Snatch, Clean & Jerk.
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Commonwealth Games: Lawal delivers second gold for Nigeria
Folashade on Sunday afternoon won Nigeria’s second gold medal in 59kg women category. With a total lift of 206kg comprising 90kg snatch and 116kg clean and jerk. She also set a new Commonwealth Games record in the class.
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Commonwealth Games: Nigeria’s Olarinloye wins first gold medal, set record
Nigerian weightlifter Adijat Olarinoye has won her way to the podium by winning the country’s first Gold medal at the commonwealth games holding in Birmigham. She made the feat possible by finishing first in the women’s 55kg weighlifting event and also setting Commonwealth games record in the process.