Nigeria completed eighth on the medals desk with a complete of 30 medals, marking its best-ever efficiency on the Islamic Solidarity Video games, whereas Turkey emerged on the prime of the standings.
This yr has been a outstanding success for the National Sports Commission, which has supported greater than 40 sports activities federations in attending worldwide competitions, lots of whom have delivered excellent performances and secured medals.
The depend contains taekwondo, swimming, cricket, para-powerlifting, para-badminton, amongst others.
Nigeria’s haul, comprised 11 gold, 12 silver, and seven bronze, a outcome that reinforces the Nationwide Sports activities Fee’s (NSC) strategic course of sending solely athletes with sturdy podium prospects to main worldwide occasions.
Competing in seven sports activities, Taekwondo, Boxing, Athletics, Wrestling, Weightlifting, Para-Powerlifting, and Para-Athletics, the workforce delivered an unprecedented consequence, profitable medals in each sports activities they competed in.
Weightlifting led Nigeria’s medal haul with 6 gold, 4 silver, and three bronze, adopted by Athletics, which secured 2 gold, 4 silver, and three bronze.
Wrestling added 2 gold and a couple of silver, Para-Powerlifting contributed 1 gold, whereas Boxing and Para-Athletics every earned 1 silver. Taekwondo accomplished the tally with 1 bronze medal.
Director Basic of the Nationwide Sports activities Fee, Bukola Olopade, praised the workforce’s distinctive outing, stating:
“It isn’t a coincidence that Nigeria received medals in each sport we participated in on the sixth Islamic Solidarity Video games. This achievement displays the brand new course we’ve taken in sports activities growth.
After assembly with our workforce on the Fee and the Elite and Podium Board led by Yusuf Ali, we made a deliberate choice to deliver solely podium prospects to Riyadh and right this moment, that call has paid off.”
He added that the efficiency in Riyadh units the usual for future worldwide engagements:
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“From Boxing to Taekwondo, Weightlifting, Wrestling, Observe and Area and Powerlifting, Nigeria secured medals in each sport we entered. That is the brand new benchmark on the Nationwide Sports activities Fee, guiding our preparations for upcoming competitions, together with the Commonwealth Video games and finally, the Olympics.”
Officers said that Staff Nigeria’s record-breaking end in Riyadh marks a defining second within the nation’s sporting evolution and strengthens its place as a rising pressure in world multi-sport competitions.
