Nigeria’s athletes continued their spectacular exhibiting on the ongoing Islamic Solidarity Video games in Riyadh, with Sade Olatoye and Ogochukwu Modesta Ogili including two extra medals to the nation’s tally on Tuesday.
Shot putter Ogochukwu Modesta Ogili claimed silver within the girls’s shot put occasion after a gradual and assured efficiency throughout all six makes an attempt.
Ogili opened with 6.94m and improved progressively earlier than touchdown her finest throw of seven.35m within the third spherical, securing her place on the rostrum.
The medal marks Nigeria’s second in athletics on the Video games, following Obiageri Pamela Amaechi’s earlier silver within the discus occasion.
Bahrain’s Rooba Alomari clinched gold with a profitable throw of seven.39m, whereas Saudi Arabia’s Nadha Alhumayolani took bronze with 6.13m.
Within the girls’s hammer throw, Sade Olatoye added one other silver for Nigeria.
The nationwide champion led the competitors as much as the fifth spherical earlier than being overtaken by Algeria’s Tatar Zhara, who produced a profitable mark of 63.55m. Olatoye, who fouled her last two makes an attempt, settled for silver with a finest effort of 63.34m, whereas Uzbekistan’s Zarinakhon Nosirjonova claimed bronze with 61.69m.
Nigeria additionally recorded promising performances on the monitor.
Within the girls’s 400m, Persistence Okon George completed second in her warmth with a time of 52.91s, behind Bahrain’s Salwa Eid Naser (52.13s).
Morocco’s Salma Lehlali positioned third in 53.26s.
In the meantime, sprinter Chioma Nweke superior to the following spherical of the ladies’s 100m after ending second in her warmth in 11.64s.
She trailed Cameroon’s Kolle Tonjock (11.31s), whereas Azerbaijan’s Lamiya Valiyeva completed third in 11.75s.
Crew Nigeria will look to construct on these robust performances because the Video games progress.
