Odunayo Adekuoroye lost her quarterfinal women’s wrestling 57 kg fight, narrowly missing out on a place in the semifinals on Thursday. Her loss further blighted Nigeria’s medal hopes in the event following Blessing Oborududu’s futile quest for a medal in the women’s freestyle 68 kg earlier this week. After defeating Fouzia Aouissi by a VIN (Victory by Injury) in the second round also on Friday, Odunayo was looking good in the quarterfinal against China’s Kexin Hong, leading 4-0 at some point.
But the witty Hong came fighting back, scoring 8 points in quick succession and eventually winning the fight 10-8. She lost to Sweden’s Sofia Mattsson at the same stage of the 2016 Olympics. Bello, Otuedo fail to advance in canoeing Nigeria also exited the women’s canoe single 200m event on Thursday, as both Ayomide Bello and Beauty Akinaere Otuedo failed to progress to the semifinals.
Bello finished 6th in the second quarterfinal with a time of 49.24s, while Otuedo came in 8th in the 3rd heat, crossing the line in 1:01.82.
Ibadin out of 800m Edose Ibadin missed out on a place in the semifinals of men’s 800m after the Nigerian record holder finished 7th in his repechage heat with a time of 1:49.09 on Friday. Related News Akuh eyes successful wrestling campaign Wrestling: Kolawole dreams Olympics triumph Zannu makes history with first-ever arm wrestling gold Botswana’s Kethobogile Haingura took the automatic spot with a time of 1:45.
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