Team Nigeria’s Blessing Oborududu has been eliminated from the race for the Women’s Wrestling 68kg Gold Medal at the Paris Olympics after losing her semi-final bout to Kyrgyzstan’s Meerim Zhumanazarova.
The 2020 Olympic Games Silver Medalist suffered a clash of heads with Zhumanazarova in the first half of the match, which impacted her performance in the second half.
Oborududu, who previously secured a Silver Medal at the Tokyo Olympics, had advanced to the Semi-Finals earlier on Monday.
However, she was unable to become the first Nigerian wrestler to reach the final in consecutive Olympic Games.
With her loss in the Semi-Final, Oborududu will now compete for the bronze medal, unlike in Tokyo 2020, where she advanced to the final.
