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Nigeria finishes 74th at Tokyo Olympics, 8th best from Africa

Team Nigeria ended up at the 74th place at the end of the 2020 Tokyo Games on Sunday.

The Team was the eighth among the 54 African nations at the Games.

SUNRISE reports that Team Nigeria won two medals comprising one silver and one bronze. Nigeria was represented by 55 athletes.

While Ese Brume won the bronze medal from the women’s long jump event, Blessing Oborududu won the silver medal from the wrestling event’s women’s freestyle 68kg.

The games which began on July 23 and ended on Sunday had 93 of the 206 participating teams making it to the medals table, including 13 of the 54 from Africa.

How African teams fared at Tokyo 2020

Country   Position (Africa)    Position (World)    Gold      Silver    Bronze    Total

Kenya             1                   19                         4              4             2            10

Uganda           2                         36                 2               1             1               4

South Africa        3                     52                    1                2            0            3

Egypt                    4                 54                    1                1            4              6

Ethiopia                5                  56                  1                 1             2             4

Tunisia                    6                 58                1                1                0           2

Morocco                  7                   63                1                 0              0           1

Nigeria                    8                     74             0                1              1             2

Namibia                 9                     77                0                1            0             1

Botswana                10                86                 0               0              1             1

Burkina Faso           10                86                 0              0              1             1

Cote d’Ivoire            10                 86                0              0              1              1

Ghana                10                        86              0              0               1             1

(NAN)

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