with 47 gold, 55 silver and 42 bronze medals. But at this year’s edition in Morocco, with 308 athletes made up 153 men and 155, Team Nigeria featured in 22 sports to finish in second place, amassing 46 gold, 33 silver and 48 bronze medals. 13 of the 22 sporting events contributed the medals with weightlifting contributing the largest number of medals to Nigeria’s second spot finish.
This is a better performance than the 2015 edition of the continental showpiece where Team Nigeria won the event with a total of 21 medals In the discus, 25-year-old Chioma Onyekwere secured her position as the best on the continent by throwing a distance of 59.91m on her fifth attempt to win gold ahead of South Africa’s duo of Yolandi Stander and Iscke Senekal . The reigning champion has also won two continental titles for Nigeria within 12 months.
It was also a good outing for United States-based Sade Olatoye who competed in the women’s shot put in Rabat and punched her ticket to the IAAF World Championships with a first-place finish. Her first-round attempt of 16.61m was good enough for the gold medal, while she also added a bronze in the hammer throw with a distance of 16.61m.
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