The Commonwealth Games came to a thrilling end yesterday in Glasgow, Scotland. Team Nigeria ended in an impressive eighth position, much better than their eleventh position in the previous edition of the Games in New Delhi, India in 2010.
Team Nigeria, which had a total number of 127 athletes, contested in six sports including athletics, boxing, weightlifting, power-lifting and para-athletics, finishing the games with 11 gold, 11 silver and 14 bronze medals. In New Delhi, Nigeria finished with 11 gold, 8 silver and 14 bronze medals.
Blessing Okagbare was the leader of the pack with her double gold medals in the women’s 100m and 200m events, setting a competition record of 10.85 seconds in the 100m event. Okagbare, alongside Lawretta Ozoh, Gloria Asumnu and Dominique Duncan, added a silver medal to her collection after they finished second behind Jamaica in the women’s 4x100m relay event. Her compatriots, Regina George, Ada Benjamin, Folashade Abugan and Patience Okon George also gave a good account of themselves, bagging the silver medal in the women’s 4x400m relay event without Okagbare.
The men did not disappoint either; the men’s 4x100m relay team which included, Obinna Metu, Mark Jelks, Ogho-Oghene Egwero and Monzavous Edwards put up a good fight against a Jamaican team that had world record holder, Usain Bolt in their ranks to finish second. In the Triple Jump event, Tosin Oke, who was crowned champion at the New Delhi 2010 Games, couldn’t defend it and had to settle for the silver this time behind South Africa’s Khotso Mokoena who took home the gold medal. Olu Olamigoke missed out on a medal after he finished fourth in the same event.
The team also won gold medals in wrestling through Aminat Adeniyi and Odunayo Adekuoroye. Wrestler, Maryan Usman and para-powerlifters, Esther Onyema and Loveline Obiji also won gold medals in their respective events. Obiji remarkably set a new world record on her way to success, lifting 144kg.
However, the team weren’t short of controversy and were thrown into disarray when 15-year-old sensation Chika Amalaha failed a dope test. Amalaha had won the gold medal in women’s weightlifting 53kg category but was stripped of her medal after testing positive in a B test. Papua New Guinea’s Dika Toua, who had won silver, was given the gold medal in Amalaha’s stead.
In the end, England emerged winners of the Commonwealth Games with 58 gold, 59 silver and 57 bronze medals. Australia and Canada were placed second and third respectively. South Africa finished in seventh place to emerge the best African team at the Games with 13 gold, 10 silver and 17 bronze medals.
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This article was first published on 4th August 2014
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Arinze Ude is a PhD Student at the University of the West of England Bristol, UK, where he's exploring on the mechanisms of donor cell leukaemia. He shares his deep thoughts on his blog and the Naked Convos. He is keen to promote personal development of the Nigerian youth via thought-provoking articles.
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The Commonwealth Games came to a thrilling end yesterday in Glasgow, Scotland. Team Nigeria ended in an impressive eighth position, much better than their eleventh position in the previous edition of the Games in New Delhi, India in 2010.
Team Nigeria, which had a total number of 127 athletes, contested in six sports including athletics, boxing, weightlifting, power-lifting and para-athletics, finishing the games with 11 gold, 11 silver and 14 bronze medals. In New Delhi, Nigeria finished with 11 gold, 8 silver and 14 bronze medals.
Blessing Okagbare was the leader of the pack with her double gold medals in the women’s 100m and 200m events, setting a competition record of 10.85 seconds in the 100m event. Okagbare, alongside Lawretta Ozoh, Gloria Asumnu and Dominique Duncan, added a silver medal to her collection after they finished second behind Jamaica in the women’s 4x100m relay event. Her compatriots, Regina George, Ada Benjamin, Folashade Abugan and Patience Okon George also gave a good account of themselves, bagging the silver medal in the women’s 4x400m relay event without Okagbare.
The men did not disappoint either; the men’s 4x100m relay team which included, Obinna Metu, Mark Jelks, Ogho-Oghene Egwero and Monzavous Edwards put up a good fight against a Jamaican team that had world record holder, Usain Bolt in their ranks to finish second. In the Triple Jump event, Tosin Oke, who was crowned champion at the New Delhi 2010 Games, couldn’t defend it and had to settle for the silver this time behind South Africa’s Khotso Mokoena who took home the gold medal. Olu Olamigoke missed out on a medal after he finished fourth in the same event.
The team also won gold medals in wrestling through Aminat Adeniyi and Odunayo Adekuoroye. Wrestler, Maryan Usman and para-powerlifters, Esther Onyema and Loveline Obiji also won gold medals in their respective events. Obiji remarkably set a new world record on her way to success, lifting 144kg.
However, the team weren’t short of controversy and were thrown into disarray when 15-year-old sensation Chika Amalaha failed a dope test. Amalaha had won the gold medal in women’s weightlifting 53kg category but was stripped of her medal after testing positive in a B test. Papua New Guinea’s Dika Toua, who had won silver, was given the gold medal in Amalaha’s stead.
In the end, England emerged winners of the Commonwealth Games with 58 gold, 59 silver and 57 bronze medals. Australia and Canada were placed second and third respectively. South Africa finished in seventh place to emerge the best African team at the Games with 13 gold, 10 silver and 17 bronze medals.
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