Nigeria wins first medal at Commonwealth Games

Mon, Apr 9, 2018 | By publisher


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Team Table Tennis has won Nigeria its first medal at the ongoing Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia.
The trio of Olajide Omotayo, Bode Abiodun, and Segun Toriola, earned Silver for Nigeria after they lost in the finals 0-3 to India’s Sharath Achanta, Sathiyan Gnanasekaran and Harmeet Desai.
The team had defeated England 3-2 in the semi-finals, as the Europeans won the bronze beating Singapore 3-0.
The Nigerian team had obtained a bronze medal at the previous edition of the Games in Glasgow, Scotland (NAN) …

-April 9, 2018 1543 GMT-

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