Nigerians Clinch Eight Medals At African Wrestling Championship

Nigerian female wresters at the ongoing 2017 Senior African Wrestling championship in Marrakech, Morocco, have clinched eight medals.
The Tidesports source reports that the medals comprise six gold and two silver.
The gold medalists are Mercy Genesus 48kg, odunayo Adekuoroye 55kg, Aminat Adeniyi 58kg, Blessing Oborududu 63kg, Kemeasuodei Dressman 69kg and Gofit Winnie 75kg.
The silver medalists are Bose Samuel 53kg and Bisola Makanjuola 60kg.
The President, Nigeria Wrestling Federation (NWF), Daniel Igali, told Tidesports source yesterday on telephone that “he is impressed with the day one results”.
Igali said  that the result by Winnie, the 75kg gold medalist had been rated as the “Fantastic result overall”.
He added that though the country’s only Greco Roman representative unfortunately didn’t win a medal.
“Tochukwu Okeke 75kg did not win a medal, but put up appreciable effort”, the Olympian said.
Tidesports source reports seven freestyle wrestlers yesterday took to the mats to increase the country’s medal haul in the male category of the competition.