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At the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, the Nigerian women’s basketball team defeated Australia 75-62 in their first game. This was the team’s first Olympic game victory in 20 years. [10] The team lost its second game in the tournament 75-54 against the host nation, France. [11]
Nigeria women's football team qualified for the Olympics by winning the fourth round match in the 2024 CAF Women's Olympic qualifying tournament. [11] Team roster. Nigeria named a squad of 18 players and 4 alternates for the tournament on 3 July 2024. [12] On 10 July, Halimatu Ayinde withdrew from the squad due to injury and was replaced by ...
Aug 1, 2024; Villeneuve-d’Ascq, France; Nigeria head coach Rena Wakama looks on in the first half against France in a women’s group stage game during the Paris 2024 Olympic Summer Games at ...
[2] [3] Nigeria also won a medal in the heavyweight division of taekwondo at the 1992 Summer Olympics; as this was only a demonstration sport, Emmanuel Oghenejobo's silver did not count as an official win. [4] The Nigeria Olympic Committee, the National Olympic Committee for Nigeria, was created in 1951. [5]
VILLENEUVE-D’ASCQ, France (AP) — Ezinne Kalu scored 21 points and Nigeria made Olympic history by becoming the first African team, male or female, to reach the Olympic quarterfinals in ...
Rena Wakama, a Raleigh native who played college basketball at Western Carolina, has coached Nigeria to its first Olympic win and a berth in the quarterfinals against the U.S.
The Nigeria women's national football team, [a] nicknamed the Super Falcons, represents Nigeria in international women's football and is controlled by the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF). The team is Africa 's most successful international women's football team, having won a record eleven Women's Africa Cup of Nations titles; [ 3 ] their most ...
VILLENEUVE-D'ASCQ, France (AP) — Ezinne Kalu made her first four 3-pointers and scored 17 of her 19 points in the first half Monday as Nigeria earned its first win in women's basketball at the ...