Nigeria’s sprint quartet of Tobi Amusan, Grace Nwokocha, Patience Okon-George and Ese Brume finished 6th in the heat 2 of women’s 4x100m, recording a time of 43.25s. The sprinters were drafted on short notice but did not fail to represent the country in Tokyo with everything in their athletic arsenal.
In the men’s Shot Put final, Chukwuebuka Enekwechi finished 12th after throwing a mark of 19.74m. Enekwechi who fouled in his first throw would go on to throw 18.87m in his second attempt before his last 19.74m throw which could not allow him passage into the last round.
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Team Nigeria ended their campaign in Tokyo after the country’s last competitor, Adijat Idris, lost to Ukraine’s Oksana Livach by superiority 10-0 in the 50kg women’s freestyle wrestling. Nigeria finished with two medals in Tokyo, the bronze won by Ese Brume in the women’s long jump event and silver won by Blessing Oborududu in wrestling.
Following her outing in Tokyo, Nigeria’s table tennis star, Offiong Edem, has moved up seven places in global table tennis rankings and remains the 3rd highest-ranked player in Africa. In the latest International Table Tennis Federation rankings, Edem moved from 123rd to 116th. It will be recalled that Edem recorded Nigeria’s first win in Tokyo and finished the Olympics as the only Nigerian table tennis player to have won a match in the event.
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