Nigeria female wrestler, Odunayo Adekuoroye, has booked a ticket to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in France.
World number 22, Adekuoroye, booked her place at next year’s games after winning bronze at the 2023 World Wrestling Championships in Belgrade, Serbia.
In Wednesday’s bronze medal match, Adekuoroye defeated World number 12 Elvira Kamaloglu of Turkey 9-5 points in the 57kg category.She has now qualified for her third consecutive Olympic Games after appearing at Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020. Silver medalist at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, Blessing Oborududu, lost to Russia’s Vusala Parfianovich in the women’s 68kg quarter-finals.
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