2021: Five record-breaking moments in Nigerian sports

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Despite the continuing pandemic, some Nigerian athletes caught the eye with outstanding performances and results.

There may be an assumption that there was very little to cheer about in Nigerian sports in 2021, but indeed there were some breathtaking and exultant moments.

Her record-breaking 12.42secs.victory in the 100m hurdles event of the last leg of the Diamond League in Zurich saw her enter the history books of Nigerian sports Quadri also became the first African ever to play up to the quarter-finals of the ITTF World Championships in Houston, Texas, and the World Table Tennis Finals in Singapore in November.Nigeria did not achieve the projection of a handful of medals from wrestling at the Tokyo Olympics, but it wasn’t a total disappointment for Team Nigeria either.

 

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