Nigeria’s Taekwondo athletes team in Rabat on Wednesday helped the contingent to be placed on the 12th African Games’ medals table with one gold and two bronze medals.
Chinazum Nwosu won the gold medal in the female -53kg event, while Sunday Onofe and Okuomose Benjamin won the bronze medals in the male -87kg and +87kg events respectively.
Nwosu beat Morocco’s Oumaima El Bouchti 26-22 in the final to win the her gold medal.
While she drew ‘bye’ in the preliminary round, she went ahead to beat Halidou Balkissa of Republic of Niger 23-9, in the quarter-finals and Tsebaot Fikadu of Ethiopia 14-10 in the semi-finals.
Also, Onofe beat Congo DR’s Esende Chadrack 25-05 in the preliminary round and Fredric Adoua of Chad 15-5 in the quarter-finals.
He, however, lost to eventual gold medalist Seydou Gbane of Cote d’Ivoire 15-12 in the semi-final.
Benjamin also drew ‘bye’ in the preliminaries, beat Senegal’s Laye Seye 40-37 in the quarter-finals and lost to Niger’s Alfaga Abdul Razak 32-10 in the semi-finals.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reported that the Taekwondo competition will end on Friday.