Lifters shine as Female Yellow Greens eye AG bronze

After Monday’s routine,  which noticed Edidiong Umoafia open the floodgates with three gold medals, the lifters returned to the GCB Corridor of the College Ghana. They took Nigeria’s tally to fifteen within the occasion.

Ayodele is competing in her first African Video games and claimed three golds in the 64kg lifting, 94kg snatch, and 114 kg clean and jerk, totalling 208kg, whereas Eze.

In her second look at Video games, Eze additionally adopted, going well with three gold medals in the 71kg, 90kg snatch, and 117 clear and jerk to reach a total of 207kg.

On Monday evening, Folashade Lawal and Adijat Olarinoye were also in action, winning three golds each in the ladies’ 55 kg and 59kg, respectively, after Umoafia had gained three earlier in the day.

The five athletes won 15 gold medals for Nigeria in the weightlifting event, bringing Nigeria’s total to 22 gold medals.

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Though Crew Nigeria had 16 gold medals as of the beginning of Day 5 on Tuesday, the six extra gold medals nonetheless placed them second on the medals desk after Egypt, who led with 48 gold medals.

In the meantime, Nigeria goes head-to-head towards 18th-ranked Uganda within the third-place match of the ladies’ cricket occasion on the Video games because the occasion’s debut reaches a thrilling climax on the Achimota Cricket Oval in Accra on Wednesday (in the present day).

The Feminine Yellow Greens lost by five wickets to Zimbabwe in the semi-finals, whereas Uganda lost by 50 runs to South Africa to arrange the conflict and leave the first two groups on the continent to slug it out for silver and gold.

With 9 locations between Nigeria (27) and Uganda (18) within the T20 rankings, the Feminine Yellow Greens will not be buoyed by the credentials of the Victoria Pearls, having confronted and conquered a higher-ranked opponent in Namibia throughout the group levels.