Oyo State U-15 weightlifting athlete, Fathia Owoyele Toluwalase, has received three silver medals on the ongoing ninth Nationwide Youth Video games tagged “Asaba 2025”, competing within the 48kg feminine class.
Fathia has established herself as one in every of Nigeria’s most promising younger lifters, having received three gold medals on the 2024 Nationwide Youth Video games additionally held in Asaba.
She was later invited to the Gateway Video games – Ogun 2024 Nationwide Sports activities Pageant as one of many Invited Junior Athletes (IJA). Within the 45kg class, she secured two gold and one silver medal for the IJA workforce whereas she narrowly missed a podium end within the 49kg class ending 4th.
In Asaba 2025, she got here up towards Edo State’s Esther Amarachi Chijioke, who proved dominant, profitable all three gold medals within the snatch, clear & jerk, and whole.
Fathia’s lifts within the 48kg class:
🥈 Snatch – 62kg
🥈 Clear & Jerk – 81kg
🥈 Whole – 143k
