Staff Nigeria’s medal haul on the ongoing 2022 Commonwealth Video games in Birmingham, United Kingdom, has swelled to seven following the trio of Chioma Onyekwere, Obiageri Amaechi and Lawal Liadi’s feats in Girls Discus and Girls’s 76kg weightlifting occasions respectively on Tuesday.
Onyekwere threw 61.70 an SB forward of England’s Jade Lally (58.42m) to win gold for the Staff whereas her compatriot, Obiageri Amaechi, settled for bronze with 56.99.
Earlier on Tuesday, 19-year-old Nigerian weightlifter, Taiwo Liadi, received silver medal by ending second behind Canadian’s Maya Laylor, who set a brand new document within the sport with a carry of 128kg within the ladies’s 76kg weightlifting occasion.
Liadi, who was born June 14, 2002, set a junior document with a carry of 120kg within the clear and jerk to win the silver medal whereas Nauru’s Maximina Uepa got here third to win the bronze medal.
Staff Nigeria, now ranked eighth on the medals’ desk of occasion, had earlier received two gold and two bronze medals within the weightlifting occasions for the reason that begin of the Birmingham Video games.
Weightlifters Adijat Olarinoye and Rafiatu Lawal received gold within the ladies’s 55kg and 59kg classes respectively.
Olarinoye set a brand new Video games document with a carry of 203kg – 92kg in Snatch and 111 in Clear & Jerk whereas Lawal clinched gold with a complete carry of 206kg – 110kg in Snatch and 116kg in Clear and Jerk – to win the ladies’s 59kg weightlifting occasion and likewise set a brand new Video games document.
Staff Nigeria shall be aiming so as to add to its five-medal haul on the Video games in Birmingham because the trio of Favour Oghene Tejiri Ashe, Raymond Ekevwo and Godson Oghenebrume all certified for the semi-final of the lads’s 100m occasion in athletics.
Having all three representatives that includes within the semis will increase Nigeria’s possibilities of ending with a medal within the blue ribband occasion.
Whereas Ashe and Ekevwo completed among the many prime 10 from the heats in instances of 10.12s and 10.14s to get computerized qualification spots, Oghenebrume needed to wait along with his time of 10.36s to get passing as one of many non-automatic qualifiers.
Nigeria’s quickest man, Ashe, received his warmth, beating the likes of Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake and bought so snug he nearly jogged to win it. Ekevwo repeated the feat in warmth 4 the place he completed sooner than Jamaican, Kemar Bailey-Cole.
