Commonwealth champions Odunayo Adekuoroye (57kg), Aminat Adeniyi (62kg) and Blessing Oborududu (68kg) have commenced preparation for the upcoming Beat The Streets Invitational wrestling event in the United States of America. The three female freestyle wrestlers, who each won gold at the recently-concluded 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia, are currently training in Akure and […]
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Odunayo Adekuoroye retained her Commonwealth crown, even as Blessing Oborududu won her first-ever gold medal in the Games history on Day 2 of the wrestling event in Gold Coast, Australia. In a keenly contested finale, World silver-medalist, Adekuoroye battled to gold in the 57kg weight class with a 7-5 points win over favourite Pooja Dhanda […]
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World silver Medalist, And winner of Sports Woman of the Year 2017 at the Nigerian Sports Awards. Odunayo Adekuoroye has today signed for top Indian wrestling Club Mumbai Maharathi ahead of pro wrestling league Season 3 billed for 9th January 2018. The Ondo state of Nigeria Born Wrestler is in line to make history if […]
Nigeria wrestlers dominated the just concluded 2017 senior African wrestling championships in Marrakech, Morocco, winning eight gold and two silver medals. The female gold medalists are Mercy Genesis in the 48 kg category, Aminat Adeniyi in the 58kg category, Odunayo Adekuoroye in the 55kg category, Blessing Oborududu in the 63kg category, Kemeasuodei Dressman in the […]
2015 World bronze medallist, Odunayo Adekuoroye lost her first fight to Swedish Sofia Mattsson at the finals of the Pro Wrestling League season two which ended Thursday night. In a replay of their bout at last year’s Rio Olympics, Sofia took a 1-0 lead in the first round thanks to a pasivity point against Odunayo. […]
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Nigeria’s most celebrated wrestler, Odunayo Folasade Adekuoroye took her pound of flesh on highly rated Swedish’s Sofia Mattsson in the 53kg women category by defeating her by 6-1 points in the Pro Wrestling League season two in India. The 2016 Olympic Bronze medalist, Sofia failed to counter Adekuoroye’s techniques and the Nigerian wrestler took a […]
Nigeria’s most celebrated wrestler, Odunayo Adekuoroye on Tuesday proved her dominance by overpowering UP’s Pinki in the 53 kg Women’s category 16-0 by virtue of Technical Superiority. The dancing and energetic Punjab Royals wrestler had in her previous bouts defeated Jaipur Ninja’s Betzabeth Arguello 16-0 and Delhi Sultan’s, Sangeeta Phogat 15-0 all by Technical Superiority. […]
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Nigeria’s Odunayo Adekuoroye continued her unbeaten run at the Pro Wrestling League in India after defeating India’s Sangeeta Phogat in just three minutes and 59 seconds by Technical Superiority. The Punjab Royals wrestler, Adekuoroye overpowered Phogat Sangeeta, representing Delhi Sultans in women’s 53kg and in the very first minute of the bout the dancing Nigerian […]
Nigeria female Wrestler, Odunayo Adekuoroye began her campaign in the season Two of the Pro Wrestling League by beating Jaipur Ninjas Betzabeth Arguello 16-0 Technical Superiority. Adekuoroye bagged some amount of consolation for Punjab with a rather one-sided victory over Betzabeth Arguello in the women’s 53kg category. The 2015 World Championship bronze medallist made good […]
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Nigeria and Commonwealth female wrestling champion, Odunayo Adekuoroye, has won gold in the on going Baku Golden Grand Prix in Baku, Azerbaijan. In the earlier rounds of the championship, the immensely gifted Nigerian wrestler beat Tatyana Kit of Ukraine 10-0 and also defeated Abdildina Aiym of Kazakhstan 5-2, to qualify for the finals. And in […]
via ADEKUOROYE WINS GOLD AT BAKU GOLDEN GRAND PRIX – By Akeem Busari — newfanzoneblog
It is no longer news that the Nigeria wrestling federation team is the strongest in Africa and has led to it’s dominance on the continent. It remains to be seen if they will take their continental conquering feat to the world level for the first time at this year’s Olympics. In less than 50 days, […]
via Can Nigeria Wrestlers Make Gold-Grabbing History in Rio 2016 Olympics? By Kuti Dare — newfanzoneblog
The President of Nigeria Wrestling Federation, Hon.Daniel Igali, has decried the apparent lack of preparations for Nigerian wrestlers ,as the Rio 2016 Olympic games draws near. In a chat with the Writer (Akeem Busari), the former Olympic gold medalist, was irked that the plans to adequately prepare the athletes for the Olympics through tournaments,have repeatedly been scuttled by the lack of funds.
“It is indeed, sad to state that only Odunayo Adekuoroye, has had some preparations for the Olympics, Hon. Igali, lamented”
“Other wrestlers who were supposed to attend a tournament in Brazil, earlier this month, were sent back home due to supposed lack of funds. Sports authorities felt the money could be better used for an irrigation project” An obviously angry Igali,continued.
“Meanwhile, we spent over 300 million naira on the Golden Eaglets, but 20 million for wrestlers was too much an investment in an Olympic year. It is sad,” he said.
Speaking further, he commended female wrestler and commonwealth champion, Odunayo Adekuoroye, for leading her team,Mumbai Garuba,to emerge the champions of the Indian Pro Wrestling League.
Adekuoroye, who fought in the 53 kg won all her six bouts by a combined score of 59-2. She was also declared as the most
outstanding wrestler in the league. The Nigeria Wrestling Federation is very proud of how well,’Odunayo, represented the country in India. That was a good stepping stone for the Olympics,” he enthused.
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