Nigeria’s gold medalist within the girls’s 80kg class of armwrestling on the ongoing 1st Africa Para-Video games in Abeokuta, Emmanuella Ifuoma Oluigbo has set her eyes on reaching ‘higher top’ within the sport.
Oluigbo said as a lot in an unique interview with Sports247, a couple of minutes after she clinched gold within the left- and right-hand occasions of her weight classification.
Whereas additionally calling on the Nationwide Sports activities Fee (NSC) to spice up armwrestling with monetary backing and different types of help, Oluigbo admitted that her achievement on Monday in Abeokuta crammed her coronary heart with nice pleasure.
She disclosed, “It’s a factor of pleasure and honour. It makes me proud that I’m a wrestler and a winner.
“I didn’t plan for it, and I didn’t know that I’d win however, as God may have it, He has positioned me the place I’m in the present day with a gold medal.”
Oluigbo additionally enthused that her double feat in The Rock Metropolis would spur her to intention for higher achievements that might make her happier within the coming days, at the same time as she places in her finest to deliver glory to Nigeria by arnwrestling.
She reasoned additional, “Having received this gold medal, it’s going to give me extra power and vitality. As I am going again to my state, I now have further zeal to coach extra.
“I even have extra confidence to inform people who armwrestling is certainly a very good sport that offers you pleasure and happiness.”
The excited winner concluded by revealing what she believes are immense values that may be gained from armwrestling and why the federal authorities ought to begin paying extra consideration to the game.
Oluigbo expatiated, “It’s a sport by which individuals come to compete with happiness, not caring whether or not they win or not.
“You will note the zeal in them, and they’re comfortable dealing with each problem. So, I’m urging extra individuals to cone into armwrestling.
“I additionally need to inform our authorities that they need to absolutely help armwrestling. We want their whole help financially and in any other case to ensure that us to achieve higher top.”
