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Nigerian wrestlers pick six slots for Rio 2016

4th April 2016
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BY MONICA IHEAKAM

SIX Nigerian wrestlers at the week­end kept their Olympic dreams burn­ing by booking their tickets to the Rio 2016 Olympics in Brazil.

The wrestlers who took part in the Africa and Oceania Olympic quali­fier held at the Mohamed Boudiar Olympic Complex in Algiers claimed six out of the 36 slots available.

All-African Games champion,Mercy Genesis won the 48kg title with 3-0 mark, including a pair of falls. Hannah Reuben 69kg was able to pull out a final tourna­ment victory with an 8-2 win over Enas Ahmed of Egypt to clinch the gold in that category despite having to fight off her back after a whip-over to near fall by Ahmed.

Blessing Oborududu 63kg and Aminat Adeniyi 58kg both won sil­ver medals and have all qualified for the 2016 Rio Olympic Games.

Nigeria’s Rio 2016 ticket tally in­creased in the men’s Freestyle event, with Amas Daniel 65kg and Soso Tamara 97kg winning gold respec­tively and qualifying for the Games in grand style.

Meanwhile, Welson Ebikewenimo 57kg and Melvin Bibo 74kg failed to make it to Rio as they lost their semi final bouts.

Nigeria went to the Africa Oceania Olympic qualifiers with nine wres­tlers, winning four gold, two silver and two bronze medals.

The feat of the wrestlers brought to 7 the number of qualified wres­tlers that would represent Nigeria at the Olympics, as Odunayo Adekuo­roye had earlier qualified by winning bronze in the 53kg weight class at the 2015 World Championship in Las Vegas USA.

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