NWF Targets Six Gold Medals At AAG

The President of the Nigeria Wrestling Federation (NWF), Daniel Igali yesterday boasted that wrestlers will win not less than six gold medals at the upcoming 11th All Africa Games (AAG).
The Games are scheduled to hold from Sept. 4 to September 19 in Congo, Brazzaville.
Igali, told newsmen on Tuesday in Abuja, that the Wrestlers would reproduce their performance at the Algiers 2007 Games.
“In Algeria we won six, gold and 4 bronze medals, we want to make it happen again, the team is working very hard to achieve this target.
“They have been in camp for the past four weeks in preparation for the event; we will come out victorious’’.
The president said the federation had picked 21 wrestlers that would represent the country at the Games.
“The essence of the just-concluded 3-day trials was to select wrestlers that will represent us convincingly at the AAG.
“We did random selections from the three categories: five Grecco-Roman, eight freestyle and eight female wrestlers.