The trio of Blessing Oborududu (68kg), Aminat Adeniyi (62kg) and youngster Adijat Idris (50kg) have qualified for the Tokyo Olympics on Day 2 of action at the ongoing African and Oceania Olympic Qualifying tournament holding in Tunisia.
2018 Commonwealth Games GOLD medallist Oborududu barely broke a sweat enroute claiming a GOLD medal in the women’s 68kg, scoring back-to-back technical superiority wins over Egypt’s Enas Mostafa Youssef Khourshed AHMED and against Anta SAMBOU from Senegal to complete her dominance in the class.
68kg #WrestleHammamet Final Standings:
🥇Blessing OBORUDUDU🇳🇬
🥈Enas AHMED 🇪🇬
🥉Khadija JLASSI 🇹🇳— United World Wrestling (@wrestling) April 3, 2021
In the women’s 62kg, two-time Commonwealth Games GOLD medallist Adeniyi was faced with the daunting task of prevailing against world No.1 Marwa Amri, who’s also the most decorated African women’s wrestler ever, but marginally fell 3-1 via a takedown to the Tunisian. Adeniyi was able to win her bouts in two other rounds to finish with Silver in the category.
AMRI (TUN) defends a few last second takedowns to pick up the 3 -1 win over ADENIYI (NGR) 🇹🇳🔥#uww #wrestling#wrestlehammamet #womenswrestling pic.twitter.com/u4EXJImRKn
— United World Wrestling (@wrestling) April 3, 2021
Meanwhile, youngster Idris’ three wins out of four bouts was enough for the National Cto grab the Silver medal in the women’s 50kg and a career first Olympic ticket.
Nice double from IDRIS (NGR) to finish off the match 15-4 against TURE (GBS) 🇳🇬🚀#uww #wrestling #wrestlehammamet #womenswrestling pic.twitter.com/CjHp9r7xS4
— United World Wrestling (@wrestling) April 3, 2021
Oborududu, Adeniyi and Idris join Odunayo Adekuoroye on the list of qualified wrestlers heading to the Tokyo Olympics.
Ebikweminomo Welson 57kg, Amas Daniel 65kg, John Emmanuel Ogbonna 74kg, Ekerekeme Agiomor 86kg and Tamarau Soso 97kg will each slug it out for an Olympic berth On Day3 of the qualifying tournament.
