NIGERIA FEMALE CONTINGENT DAZZLES AT COMMONWEALTH GAMES

Team Nigeria female representatives at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow are doing the nation proud as they have been responsible for all the Gold medals the country has won so far.

Nigerian weightlifters Maryam Usman and Oluwatoyin Adesanmi both won gold medals in the Women's +75kg and +63kg category. Usman lifted 125kg in snatch and 155kg clean & jerk defeating the defending champion Ele Opeloge of Samoa. Adesanmi defeated her compatriot Obioma Okoli who won silver, leaving India's Punam Yadav to settle for the bronze medal.

In the wrestling event, Odunayo Adekuroye and Aminat Adeniyi won gold in the Women's Free Style 53kg and 58kg category respectively. Adekuroye defeated Lalita Lalita of India to submission to win 5-0. Aminat on the other hand, dominated Sakshi Malik of India by taking a lead of 10-0 in 2 minutes 24 seconds before the match was stopped on account of technical superiority. 

 Prolific sprinter Blessing Okagbare clinched the Commonwealth Games sprint double, becoming the first African woman and the fourth woman ever to achieve that feat. She did so in a record time of 10.85 and 22.25 in the 100m and 200m final races respectively.

In the women’s long jump event, fast rising athlete, Ese Brume, achieved a 6.56m leap to win Nigeria’s eight gold medal of the games. Brume's blistering performance ensured Nigeria's first gold medal at the event in 14 years.