Wrestling Federation invites four for World Championships

AFTER the success story of the recently held maiden Chief Edwin K Clark Open Wrestling Championship in Warri, Delta State, the federation is upbeat that it would do well at the forthcoming September World Championship in Budapest, Hungary

To that effect, the Nigeria Wrestling Federation (NWF) has penciled four wrestlers made up of three females and a male for the Championships.

[caption id="attachment_406365" align="alignnone" width="351"] Delta state's Lucky Opiated in blue outfit lucks hornets with Adibo Dick of Bayelsa state in the men's 84kg weight class free style at the just concluded Maiden Chief E K Clerk wrestling championship in Warri, Delta state. Adibo Dick won the bout.[/caption]

They are Adekuroye Odunayo of Ondo state, a gold medalist in the female 51 kg  class; Blessing Oborodudu of Bayelsa state, a World silver and Commonwealth Games medalist in the 63 kg weight class and three times World bronze and Commonwealth Games medalist, Ifeoma Iheanacho who failed to live up to her expectation at the E K Clark championship in the 72 kg class.

President of NWF Dr Daniel Igali re-echoed the success of the E K Clark Championship and said, “ Nigeria will be sending a team of  four athletes to the Wrestling World Championships in Budapest in the second week of September. We are hopeful that we will make enormous progress at the world championships. It’s the collective desire of the wrestling federation to start exposing our athletes to such competitions because it will stand us in good stead to do well next year at the Commonwealth Games’’, he said.