Four Nigerian wrestlers qualified for the Paris 2024 Olympics on Saturday in their various events at the ongoing African championships and Olympics qualifiers in Alexandria, Egypt.
Jerrymusa.com reports that the wrestlers will now team up with Odunayo Adekuoroye, who qualified in 2023 by taking home a bronze medal in the women’s 57kg division at the Belgrade World Championships.
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Blessing Oburududu, the silver medalist from the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, qualified for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris with a 2-0 pinfall victory over Uilau Tarkong of Palau in the 68kg division.
Olympic gold medalist Hannah Reuben (76 kg) defeated Amy Youin (Cote d’Ivoire) 6-0 to earn a spot in the Paris Olympics.
After defeating Cape Verde’s Angelina Rodrigues 10-0, Nigerian athlete Esther Kolawole was included on the list of competitors heading to Paris for the Olympics.
Christiana Ogunsanya, the 53kg African Games champion, defeated Shaimaa Mohamed, an Egyptian, 10-0 to guarantee qualification.
But Mercy Genesis lost to Nada 5-7 in this frame, just missing out on the Paris Olympics.
Mohamed, an Egyptian, is competing in the 50 kg class.
The nation will be represented at the Paris 2024 Olympics by five female wrestlers.
When they hit the mat on Sunday, male freestyle wrestlers from Nigeria will be hoping to join their female counterparts.
The last day to qualify for this window is Sunday. From May 9 to 12, in Istanbul, Turkey, there will be a 2024 World Qualification Tournament to determine who gets to go to the Olympics.
The Olympic qualifiers and African championships, which began in Alexandria, Egypt, on Monday, are anticipated to conclude on Sunday.