Nigeria’s Mariam Eniola Bolaji won a bronze medal at the ongoing Paris 2024 Paralympic Games in the Para badminton Women’s singles SL3 event on Monday. Bolaji overpowered Oksana Kozyna in straight sets, beating the Ukrainian 2-0 with a 21-9, 21-9 score to win Nigeria’s first medal of the Paris 2024 Paralympics. The 18-year-old made history by becoming the first African athlete to win a badminton medal...
Nigeria’s Blessing Oborodudu will not get her hands on a medal in the Paris 2024 Olympics after suffering a shocking defeat in the bronze medal bout to world number 25, Japan’s Nonoka Ozaki, at the Champ-de-Mars Arena on Tuesday. The 35-year-old, who won a silver medal at the Tokyo 2020 Games and is ranked 6th in the world, lost 3-0 (victory on points) to the Japanese...
Kenyan middle-distance runner Pamela Jelimo has been awarded her bronze medal, ten years after competing at the 2012 Olympic Games in London. The 2008 Olympic gold medallist was upgraded from fourth to third place in 2017 after Russia's Mariya Savinova was disqualified due to a doping violation in 2015 that led to the annulment of all her results between July 2010 and August 2013. At 18 years...
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