Nigerian wrestlers are world-class, says federation scribe Segun Oguntade, the Secretary of Nigeria Wrestling Federation (NWF), on Friday in Glasgow, Scotland said Nigerian wrestlers are world class going by their performance at the ongoing Commonwealth Games. Oguntade was reacting to the three bronze and one silver medals won by Team Nigeria wrestlers on Thursday, the final day of events at the wrestling competition at the Games. He said that the federation felt fulfilled after it got two gold medals from the four it projected. ``We targeted four gold medals and got two, and out of the 14 wrestlers we featured only two did not win any medal. ``So, from the 12 wrestlers who won medals, we have two gold, two silver and eight bronze. ‘‘Even though, a gold medal is the main thing, but we thank God for what he has done for us because other countries also prepared for the competition,’’ Oguntade said. He said all the Nigerian sports authorities needed to do now, in view of the wrestlers’ performance, was to expose them further in preparation for the 2016 Olympics in Rio, Brazil. The wrestling federation official said Nigeria had the potential to excel at every international competition but was usually weighed down by poor preparation. ``Any wrestler we are presenting is a medal hope and from what we have seen at this Games, Nigeria is a force to reckon with in world wrestling,’’ he added. Ifeoma Nwoye had on Thursday defeated her Cameroonian counterpart, Joseph Tiako, in the women’s 55kg class to win bronze. Similarly, Blessing Oborududu and Samson Clarkson picked bronze in the women’s 63kg and men’s 65kg respectively. Oborududu defeated Chloe Spiteri of England, while Clarkson overpowered Terry Rensburg of South Africa
Posted on: Fri, 01 Aug 2014 11:13:05 +0000
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