Nigerian wrestler, Blessing Oborududu, has won the first silver medal for Nigeria in the ongoing Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
Oborududu lost 4-1 to her opponent USA’s Tamyra Mensah-Stock in the final of the women’s freestyle 68kg on Tuesday. She is the first Nigerian wrestler ever to win a silver medal at the Games.
Oborududu qualified for the final after defeating Mongolia’s Soronzonboldyn Battsetseg 7-2 in the semi-finals. She had earlier defeated Kyrgyzstan’s Meerim Zhumanazarova 3-2 in the quarter-finals, after seeing off Azerbaijan’s Elis Manolova in the Round of 16.
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