Aruna becomes first African to rise into ITTF top 15
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13-year-old Hana Goda knocks Oshonaike out of ITTF African championship
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Taekwondo player, Elizabeth Anyanacho and table tennis star, Edem Offiong were the latest Team Nigeria athletes to exit the ongoing Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
Anyanacho in particular suffered a blow in her quest for an Olympic medal in the early hours of Monday against a much matured and experienced double Olympic medallist, Nur Tartar of Turkey.
Tartar showed class and applied experience winning 12 – 7 against the Nigerian debutant who proved that the future belongs to her with a performance that stunned many who could not believe she was fighting in her first Olympics.
The defeat left the 22-year-old Anyanacho gutted and she could not help but to succumb to crying.
Offiong qualifies, Oshonaike, Omotayo out The Punch
Published 25 July 2021
Nigeria’s Edem Offiong advanced to the second round of the women’s singles event of the 2020 Olympic Games with an emphatic 4-1 win over Hungary’s Dora Madarasz at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium on Saturday.
Offiong, ranked 123 in the world, showed her dominance in the encounter beating the Hungarian 11-8, 11-9, 11-9, 9-11, 11-4 to book a spot in the second round, where she will battle American Lily Zhang, who is ranked 31 in the latest ITTF rankings.
The Nigerian is making her third appearance at the Olympics after previously featuring at the 2012 and 2016 editions. The win is the second in her Olympics career after previously beating Fiji’s Sally Yee at the 2012 edition.