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Paris 2024: Lawal Adijat wins 3 gold, 3 silver for Nigeria

Posted : 16 May 2023
Nigeria on Monday began her quest for 2024 Olympic Games qualification in grand style as Lawal Rufiatu and Olarinoye Adenike Adijat won 3 gold and 3 silver medals, respectively, at the ongoing 2023 Senior Africa Weightlifting Championship in Tunisia.

The championship also serves as the 2024 Olympics qualifier.

Competing in the 59 kg women's category, Rafiatu won three gold medals in Snatch, Clean and Jerk, and Total, while Adijat claimed all three silver medals in the same category.

Lawal Rufiatu, the 2022 Commonwealth Games gold medal winner in the category, lifted 95 kilogrammes in snatch, 122 kilogrammes in clean and jerk, and 217 kilogrammes in total to win all three gold medals in the category.

Olarinoye, the 2022 Commonwealth Games gold medal winner in 55 kg, claimed all three silver medals with a lift of 93 kg in snatch, 118 kg in Clean & Jerk, and 211 kg in total as she continued her impressive performances in the new category.

Olarinoye moved from 55 kg in late 2022 to 59 kg.

In her first competition in the new category at the 2022 National Sports Festival (NSF), she won three silver medals. Two Tunisians and a Moroccan shared the three bronze medals.

Nigeria will continue her quest for more medals in Tunis on Tuesday, May 16, as two lifters will be on stage as well. Joy Eze (71 kg for women) and Edidiong Umofia (73 kg for men) will compete. Nigeria's fifth athlete, Akano Desmond (89 kg men), will round off Nigeria's participation in the championship on Wednesday, May 17.

Nigerian weightlifters will participate in six championship qualifiers as they seek to return Nigeria to the global weightlifting map at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France. The 2023 Africa Weightlifting Championship, which commenced on May 11, will end on Friday, May 19.
 

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