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Nigerian athletes have won a total of 27 medals, mostly in athletics and boxing. The national football team won the gold medal in 1996. In 2008, following the International Olympic Committee 's decision to strip the American 4 × 400 metre relay team of their medals from the 2000 Summer Olympics after Antonio Pettigrew confessed to using ...
Pages in category "Olympic gold medalists for Nigeria" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Chioma Ajunwa-Opara (born 25 December 1970) – also known as Chioma Ajunwa – is a Nigerian former track and field athlete and football player, notable for being the first Nigerian to win Olympic gold at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, [1] [2] and the first black African woman to win an Olympic gold medal in a field event. [3]
Medal Athlete Games Sport Event Gold: Reggie Walker: 1908 London: Athletics: Men's 100 m Silver: Charles Hefferon: 1908 London: Athletics: Men's marathon Gold: Ken McArthur: 1912 Stockholm: Athletics: Men's marathon Silver: Christian Gitsham: 1912 Stockholm: Athletics: Men's marathon Gold: Bevil Rudd: 1920 Antwerp: Athletics: Men's 400 m Silver ...
He has also won the national championships on three occasions, and is a six-time medalist at a national sports festival is Nigeria. Udo-Obong was nominated as one of the 50 most influential young Africans by African Digest in 2002, where he also captained Team Nigeria to the Commonwealth Games in Manchester, UK.
Emmanuel Arinze Ifeajuna // ⓘ (1935 – 25 September 1967) [1] was a Nigerian army major and high jumper.He was the first Black African to win a gold medal at an international sports event when he won at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games.
Olympic gold medalists for Nigeria (26 P) Olympic silver medalists for Nigeria (39 P) Olympic bronze medalists for Nigeria (42 P)
The awards were not immediately reallocated to the runners-up Nigeria that Monye raced on, despite the likelihood of it. [3] [4] On 21 July 2012, the 2000 Olympics 4 × 400 m relay medals were reallocated after the USA team was stripped of the gold medal, meaning Monye and Nigeria are the gold medalists.