By Amaechi Agbo Nigeria weightliers on Monday showed class and dominance as they won all the nine gold medals on display on Day 3 of the Weightlifting event at the on-going 2023 Africa Games in Ghana. The 55kg and 59kg women categories and 67kg men category gold medals were won by Nigerians. ... Read more...
By Amaechi Agbo The duo of Nigerian weightlifters, Rafiatu Folashade Lawal and Adijat Adenike Olarinoye on Monday won six medals at the ongoing 2024 Africa Senior Weightlifting Championship in Egypt. Competing in the 59kg women's category, Lawal and Adijat dominated the category as they cate... Read more...
By Timothy Nwobodo Weightlifting duo of Rafiatu Folashade Lawal and Adijat Adenike Olarinoye will this evening begin Nigeria's hunt for gold and silver medals when they compete in the 59kg women's category at the ongoing 2024 Africa Senior Weightlifting Championship, in Egypt. Both lifters w... Read more...
By Timothy Nwobodo A contingent of four lifters and four officials from Nigeria have arrived Egypt on Saturday ahead of the 2024 Africa Senior Weightlifting Championship. The contingent departed Nigria on Saturday morning through the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport, Abuja. In a release signed by the ... Read more...
By Amaechi Agbo Nigeria on Monday began her quest for 2024 Olympic Games qualification in grand style as Lawal Rufiatu and Olarinoye Adenike Adijat won 3 gold and 3 silver medals respectively at the ongoing 2023 Senior Africa Weightlifting Championship in Tunisia The championship also serves... Read more...
By Amaechi Agbo Nigeria will today begin their quest for 2024 Olympic Games qualification in Weightlifting even as two Nigerian lifters, Olarinoye Adijat and Lawal Rafiatu will be on the stage today, Monday, May 15 in Tunisia The duo, competing in 59kg women category, will begin their compet... Read more...
Amaechi Agbo (Reporting From Asaba) Akwa Ibom and Oyo Stats were dominant on Day 3 of Weightlifting Events at the ongoing National Sports Festival, NSF in Asaba Delta State as they won gold medals to increase their medal haul. Commonwealth bronze Medallist, Emmanuel Edidiong representing Akwa... Read more...
By Chinedu Ohawusi The Association of Nigerian Women in Sports (NAWIS) has backed Team Nigeria's female athletes to rekindle their expeptional good form, by working themselves to claim podium places for themselves, and Nigeria in particular, at the ongoing 2022 Commonwealth Games, in Birmingham,... Read more...
…Edidiong, Rafiatu Hunts For More Medals Today By Amaechi Agbo The Nigeria Weightlifting Federation, NWF has lauded Olarinoye Adenike Adijat on her superlative performance on Saturday after she won Team Nigeria's first gold medal in weightlifting at the ongoing Commonwealth Games, tagged ... Read more...
By Amaechi Agbo The President, Nigeria Weightlifting Federation, NWF, Dr Ibrahim Abdul has charged the Team Nigeria weightlifters at the 22nd Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England to aspire for gold medals as weightlifting events begin today. The weightlifting events at the Birmingham 20... Read more...