Nigerian wrestler Blessing Oborududu has won the first silver medal for Nigeria in the ongoing Tokyo 2020 Olympics. She lost the final of the 68kg women’s freestyle wrestling event 4-1 to America’s Tamyra Mensah-Stock but won silver in the process. Oborududu is the first Nigerian wrestler ever to win a silver medal at the Games. The 32-year-old athlete, who is also the first-ever Nigerian to win an Olympics medal in wrestling, qualified for the final after defeating Mongolia’s Soronzonboldyn Battsetseg 7-2 in the semi-finals on Monday.
She had earlier defeated Kyrgyzstan’s Meerim Zhumanazarova 3-2 in the quarter-finals, after seeing off Azerbaijan’s Elis Manolova in the Round of 16.
Oborududu’s victory has fetched Nigeria its second medal at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, after long jumper Ese Brume, earlier on won the first bronze for Nigeria.
