Team Nigeria’s taekwondo athletes at the ongoing 12th All African Games in Rabat won gold and two bronze medals.
Chinazum Nwosu won the gold medal in the female -53kg event, while Sunday Onofe and Okuomose Benjamin won the bronze medals in the male -87kg and +87kg events respectively.
Nwosu had drawn bye in the preliminary round, while she beat Halidou Balkissa of Republic of Niger 23-9 in the quarter-finals and Tsebaot Fikadu of Ethiopia 14-10 in the semi-finals.
She went on to beat Morocco’s Oumaima El Bouchti 26-22 in the final.
On his part, Onofe beat Congo DR’s Esende Chadrack 25-05 in the preliminary round and Fredric Adoua of Chad 15-5 in the quarter-finals.
He however lost to eventual gold medalist Seydou Gbane of Cote d’Ivoire 15-12 in the semi-final.
Benjamin also drew bye in the preliminaries, beat Senegal’s Laye Seye 40-37 in the quarter-finals and lost to Niger’s Alfaga Abdul Razak 32-10 in the semi-finals.
