Nigeria On Verge Of Equalling Best Games Record

After securing nine gold medals in Birmingham, team Nigeria is on course to match the record of gold medals won by their predecessors at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Canada, Tidesports source reports.
In 1994, Team Nigeria won 11 gold medals, which none of the country’s teams afterwards have been able to match ever since.
Now, 28 years later, a new generation of athletes are looking to make their nation proud and are as close to equaling setting a new record should they make it 12 gold wins in the final events decided yesterday.
A notable contrast would be that unlike in 1994 when the men dominated proceedings, winning nine out of the 11 gold medals at the global tournament, and winning 31 out of the total 37 medals while the women won just six, the women have grabbed all the headlines this time around and have rewritten the history books. And what better way to do that than to win the first gold medal of the tournament as Adijat Olarinoye set a new Commonwealth Games’ record to claim gold in weightlifting.
The female athletes have since then won all nine of Nigeria’s gold medals at the Games in Birmingham, and a total of 22 medals, while the male athletes have won just eight with the total tally at 30.
Weightlifting has proven to be a ‘goldmine’ event for Nigeria just like in 1994 when six of the 11 gold medals came from the category with the men winning all.
Oliver Toby (152.5kg), Najite Ogboju (125.0kg), Moji Oluwa (165.0kg and 295.0kg), Lawal Riliwan (132.5kg), and Christopher Onyezier (155.0kg) all set Games Record in the tournament in Victoria, Canada.