Because the sixth Islamic Solidarity Video games enters its last week in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Group Nigeria is aiming to consolidate on its first half efficiency, the place it completed sixth amongst the 58 international locations on the medals desk.
Group Nigeria garnered a complete of 14 medals, together with 6 gold medals, 5 silver and three bronze, predominantly from Weightlifting and one silver medal from boxing.
And with Observe and Discipline beginning on Monday, the seventeenth of November, and Para Sports activities additionally following go well with, Group Nigeria is predicted to additional gentle up the competitors with extra medals and transfer greater on the medals desk.
Nigeria’s Taekwondo sensation Elizabeth Anyanacho is predicted to start her quest for a Gold medal on Sunday when she awaits the winner between Mauritania and Mozambique within the quarter-final spherical.
The Africa primary broke a 20-year file within the -67kg when she received bronze on the World Championship in China final month and shall be hoping to now end the 12 months with a Gold medal in Riyadh.
With a complete of 43 Gold medals up for grabs in Observe and Discipline, Nigeria’s contingent of an thrilling mixture of younger and overseas athletes is hoping to make an enormous assertion on the Prince Faisal bin Fahad Sports activities Metropolis when hostilities start on Monday.
Nigeria’s Wrestling contingent beneath the brand new management of the Comptroller-Normal (CG) of Nigeria Customs, Adewale Adeniyi, because the President of the Nigeria Wrestling Federation, will begin their competitors on Tuesday on the Boulevard Riyadh Metropolis.
Group Nigeria’s medal haul is predicted to additional swell when the nation’s Para athletes additionally start their competitions in each Powerlifting and Para-Athletics.
Nigeria Para-Powerlifters are nonetheless contemporary from ending second on the World Championship in Egypt and are hoping to be on that type when their competitors begins on Friday in Riyadh, whereas the Para-athletes will begin their competitors on Tuesday.
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The management of the Nationwide Sports activities Fee, NSC, led by Chairman, Shehu Dikko and Director Normal, Bukola Olopade, has been very impressed with Group Nigeria’s efficiency up to now on the video games.
The duo reaffirmed confidence that the entire essence of the competitors for the nation’s athletes is being met forward of subsequent 12 months’s Commonwealth Video games, World Championships and in the end the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics Video games.
