Nigeria’s contingent to the ongoing 2020 African Wrestling Championships in Algeria, on Thursday, arrived Algiers – venue of the completion – brimming with confidence. The delegation of 20 athletes and officials, which left Lagos a day earlier, touched down at the Houari Boumediene International Airport around 3:15 pm local time (which is also same time […]
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Commonwealth champion Blessing Oborududu (68kg) has moved up to a career-high No. 3 in the latest world rankings released by the United World Wrestling, following her impressive outing at the recently-concluded Matteo Pellicone Ranking Series tournament in Rome, Italy, where she won a bronze medal. Obourududu (30pts) jumped four places from 7th in the previous […]
Wrestling sensation and 2-time Commonwealth champion Odunayo Adekuoroye reigned supreme in Rome at the Matteo Pellicone Ranking Series tournament, claiming gold in a very dominant fashion in the final of the 57kg class, while Blessing Oborududu (68kg) settled for bronze at the event. After convincingly taking out her opponents in the earlier rounds, Adekuoroye demolished […]
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After recording some ground-breaking achievements last year, President of the Nigeria Wrestling Federation (NWF) Hon. Daniel Igali is hopeful that 2020 will be even ‘better’ for the sport in the country. In addition to dominating the continent at the African Championships in Tunisia and the 12th African Games in Morocco in 2019, Team Nigeria grabbed […]
via gali Hopes For ‘Better’ 2020 In Nigerian Wrestling…Targets 8 Olympic Spots — finixsportsblog
President of the Nigeria Wrestling Federation (NWF) Hon. Daniel Igali has promised to sponsor a developmental competition tagged the Daniel Igali South-South Cadet/Junior Championships in 2020. The Bayelsa State Commissioner for Sports Development made this promise during the final board meeting of the NWF on Wednesday in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital. The competition, which […]
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President of the Nigeria Wrestling Federation (NWF) Hon. Daniel Igali has hailed the performances of the country’s wrestlers this year, describing 2019 as a ‘very good’ for Nigerian wrestling. While speaking in his office in Yenagoa, Hon. Igali, who is also the Sports Commissioner in Bayelsa State, added that the wrestlers, who won lots of […]
President of the Nigeria Wrestling Federation (NWF) Hon. Daniel Igali has lauded the performance of the country’s wrestlers at the just-concluded Senior World Wrestling Championships in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan. Nigeria’s Odunayo Adekuoroye (57kg) booked an Olympic ticket and also won a bronze medal – her third in the tournament’s history – while Blessing Oborududu (68kg) and […]
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A day after sealing her place at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, Commonwealth champion Odunayo Adekuoroye won a bronze medal at the ongoing 2019 Senior World Wrestling Championships in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, her third medal in the history of the competition. After losing in the semi-finals to the eventual champion Risako Kawai of Japan, the World No. […]
Reigning Commonwealth champions Odunayo Adekuoroye and Blessing Oborududu will Today night depart Nigeria for Istanbul, Turkey ahead of the prestigious Yasar Dogu Ranking Series event which runs from 11th to 14th July, 2019. The pair, who recently retained their respective national titles at the 3rd Gov. Dickson Wrestling Classics in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, will be […]
via WRESTLING: Adekuoroye, Oborududu Storm Istanbul For Ranking Series — finixsportsblog
Wrestling sensation Odunayo Adekuoroye has challenged her opponents in the 57kg category in Nigeria to raise their game in order to give her credible competition. The 2017 World silver medalist from Ondo State, retained her national title in the 57kg class at the just-concluded 3rd Governor Dickson National Classics in Yenagoa, dispatching Patience Kakanda of […]
via WRESTLING: Adekuoroye Challenges Opponents In Nigeria To Step Up — finixsportsblog
The board of the Nigeria Wrestling Federation (NWF) has unanimously passed a vote of confidence on its president, Hon. Daniel Igali, who is in the middle of his second four-year term in office. In a meeting on the sidelines of the just-concluded 3rd Gov. Dickson National Wrestling Classics in Yenagoa, the board members gave the […]
via Nigeria Wrestling Federation Passes Vote Of Confidence On Igali — finixsportsblog
Ondo State’s Bose Samuel reclaimed her national title in emphatic fashion on Thursday at the ongoing 3rd Gov. Dickson National Wrestling Classics in Yenagoa. In the final of the Women’s 53kg, the 2018 African champion, who was dethroned by Rosemary Nweke at the National Sports Festival last December in Abuja, outclassed Ozioma Joseph from Delta […]
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