Team Nigeria adds seven gold medals, climbs to fourth place in the African Games
Team Nigeria now ranks fourth for total medals at the ongoing African Games in Ghana, having amassed seven gold, seven silver, and 12 bronze medals, Premium Times reports.
The country took a big leap in the standings after adding the seven gold medals on Sunday, March 10.
After many disappointing outings, Anuoluwapo Opeyori came through for Team Nigeria with the first gold medal in the Badminton men’s single event.
Impeccable performances also came from all the representatives in the women’s wrestling event, where all six of them delivered gold medals.
It was first Mercy Genesis with the gold medal in the wrestling event, then Christiana Ogunsanya, Kolawole Omolayo, Adekuoroye Odunayo, Blessing Oburududu, and Rueben Hannah Amuchechi followed, to complete an excellent Sunday showing.
After the Sunday games, Egypt remained far and away the gold medal leaders, with 36 gold medals and 66 medals in total.
The Table of champions. 🏆
Accra 2023 medal table. #Accra2023#Africangames#ExperiencetheAfricanDream pic.twitter.com/CgcoEg3aRJ— 13th African Games, Accra 2023 (@Accra2023AG) March 11, 2024
Algeria and South Africa are a distant second and third respectively with eight gold medals each.
Meanwhile, host Ghana is 10th with a gold and three silver medals.
At the last African games in Morocco, Team Nigeria took 311 athletes to the competition and finished second with 46 gold and 127 medals in total. The country hopes to match or surpass that this time around, having taken 358 athletes to compete in 25 different sports.
