AFRIQUECAN: NIGERIA on Sunday won six gold medals in different categories of female wrestling event at the ongoing 13th African Games in Ghana.
Blessing Oborodudu won the first gold medal after defeating Blandine Nyeh Ngiri of Cameroon 14-4.
Odunayo Adekuroye followed Oborodudu’s footsteps, beating Zineb Hassoune of Morocco with a pinfall.
Commonwealth and African, Mercy Genesis dispatched her Egyptian opponent Mohamed Nada of 7-0.
African Games debutant Ogunsanya Christiana produced à dominant display in the 53kg to outclass her opponent Nogona Bakayoko of Cote D’Ivoire 11-0.
Hannah Reuben added more celebration to the already agog atmosphere after she defeated Amy Youin of Ivory Coast.