Amusan, Brume, Oborodudu, Others Ready to Defend Commonwealth Crown with Team Nigeria

Amusan, Brume, Oborodudu, Others Ready to Defend Commonwealth Crown with Team Nigeria

By Our Reporter

Less than 24 hours before the official start of the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, Team Nigeria is ready to take on the rest of the Commonwealth countries in the battle for sports supremacy.

Fresh from smashing the world record at the 2022 World Athletics Championship, Tobi Amusan will be aiming to successfully defend the gold medal she won in the 2018 edition of the Games. Also, World Athletics Championship Silver medalist, Ese Brume will be the cynosure of all eyes in the long jump event in which she is won Bronze at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

In wrestling, Blessing Oborodudu won gold at the last Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia in the Women's -68kg category.

Also, Odunayo Adekuoroye will defend her gold medal in the Women's wrestling -57kg category, just as Aminat Adeniyi who won gold in the -62kg event.

The Table Tennis contingent led by Aruna Quadri, which includes Olajide Omotayo would be aiming to improve on the Silver medals they earned from Gold Coast.

Nigeria's athletes competing in the Powerlifting event will also be aiming to beat all-comers, and better the four Gold medals the country picked up in Gold Coast via Roland Ezuruike, Esther Onyema, Ndidi Nwosu and Abdulazeez Ibrahim.

Nigeria's para athletes, amongst the best in the world would for sure provide stern tests to their challengers from other nations. Yetunde Odunuga and Millicent Agboegbulam would be set to improve on their bronze medals achievements in Boxing from 2018. 

In total, Team Nigeria won 9 Gold medals, 9 silver medals and 6 bronze medals from 8 sports in 2018.

This time, Nigeria will compete in 9 sports namely;

Athletics, Boxing, Table Tennis, Judo, weightlifting, Wrestling, Para Athletics, Para powerlifting, Para Table Tennis.