BEVERLY HILLS, April 15, (THEWILL) – Team Nigeria has ended its campaign at the 2018 Commonwealth Games with 24 medals after Aruna Quadri won silver in the men’s table-tennis singles.
Nigeria finished the games in Gold Coast with 9 gold medals, 9 silver medals and 6 bronze medals to place ninth on the medals’ table behind Australia, England, India, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, Wales and Scotland.
The Para Athletes accounted for five of the top podium placements while wrestling had three and athletics one.
Odunayo Adekuoroye clinched the first gold for the country in the women’s wrestling freestyle 57kg after defeating India’s Pooja Dhanda with a 7-5 victory by points.
Blessing Oborududu claimed the second gold medal after staging a terrific comeback from a 3-0 deficit to beat Canada’s Danielle Lappage 4-3 in the women’s freestyle 68kg.
Para-athlete Suwaibidu Galadima led from the start to finish to win gold in the men’s the men’s T47 100m final with a time of 11.04s.
Amas Daniel won bronze coming from 4-0 down to equal it at 4-4 against South Africa’s Terry Van Rensburg, winning bronze in men’s freestyle 65kg.
Aminat Adeniyi won gold in the women’s wrestling 62kg freestyle Nordic, while Melvin Bibo and Mercy Genesis both added silver and bronze to the wrestling medals pool.
The quartet of Patience Okon-George, Glory Nathaniel, Praise Idamadudu and Yinka Ajayi won silver in the women’s 4x400m relay while sprint queen, Blessing Okagbare led Nigeria’s women’s 4x100m relay team to win bronze.
Tobi Amusan had on Friday struck gold in the women’s 100m hurdles clocking 12.68 Seconds. This increased Nigeria’s medal haul to eight gold, five silver and five bronze medals.
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