Blessing Oborududu: Meet Nigeria's first wrestler to win silver in Olympics - Punch Newspapers

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Blessing Oborududu won Olympic Games’ silver medal in the women’s freestyle 68kg, the first won by a Nigerian wrestler in history.

“My first medal was a bronze in 2009,” she told Olympic Channel while competing at the 2019 African Games in Rabat. Oborududu has won all African titles apart from 2012 when she skipped the continental event for London 2012, the first of her three Olympic appearances.Fighting against the odds “When I was growing, my parents used to tell me wrestling is for boys and not for girls,” she recalled in an interview with Olympic Channel.

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