Nigerian wrestlers enjoyed a stellar day on Sunday at the ongoing African Games in Accra, Ghana, as all six female wrestlers won a gold medal each of their respective weight classes. Mercy Genesis got the first gold medal for Nigeria in the women's wrestling, defeating Egypt’s Nada Mohamed 7-0 to be crowned champion in the women’s 50kg freestyle event. She became the first woman to win...
Nigerian female wrestler Odunayo Adekuoroye defeated Turkey’s Elvira Kamaloglu in the third-place match at the ongoing World Wrestling Championships in Belgrade, Serbia, on Wednesday. The 29-year-old reigning African champion overcame her Turkish opponent 9-5 to win the bronze medal in the women’s 57kg category and book her place in next year’s Olympic Games. Watch how Nigeria's Odunayo Adekurouye won bronze ???? medal at the ongoing 2023...
Team Nigeria will seek to prevail by winning medals at the African Wrestling Championships which goes down in the tourist town of Hammamet in Tunisia. The team will be led by world number two women wrestler and Olympic gold medalist Blessing Oborodudu who is out to claim a record 13th African title. Her appearance in North Africa would be the first since 2022 when she participated...
Over the weekend, the famous Henri Deglane Grand Prix competition took place in the French city of Nice with Christianah Tolulope Ogunsanya, Esther Omolayo Kolawole, and Mercy Bolafunoluwa Adekuoroye representing Nigeria. The wrestling event held in memory of France’s 1924 Olympic gold medalist Henri Deglane was supposed to be held in January 2022 but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and it opened the international...
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