Weightlifting: Hope for Nigeria in Olympic Games Paris 2024 – President
Rafiatu Lawal (women’s 59 kg) and Joy Eze (women’s 71 kg) secured two of the top ten slots in their weight divisions based on the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) Olympic Qualification Ranking finals.
Ibrahim Abdul, the President of Nigeria Weightlifting Federation (NWF), on Friday says the federation will make the country proud at the upcoming Olympic Games Paris 2024 in France.
Abdul told the newsmen in Abuja that the target of the federation is to achieve the highest levels of success by winning gold medals and finish podium, in Paris.
According to him, two athletes will represent the federation at the upcoming Olympic Games.
“We have gone through all the part ways for the Olympics and we have qualified two athletes. We are currently in camp and we are training in the camp,” he said
He explained that the two athletes would also participate in the two weeks camp in Paris before the Olympics commenced.
“The African weightlifting Associations have also organised to camp all African athletes that qualified for the Olympics Games from July 12 to July 25 in France.
“We also want to align with that of the Ministry but currently we are in camp and everything is going on well.
“We are going to have a training camp abroad that’s with our African body training camp,” he said
Supreme News reports that Rafiatu Lawal (women’s 59 kg) and Joy Eze (women’s 71 kg) secured two of the top ten slots in their weight divisions based on the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) Olympic Qualification Ranking finals.
Supreme News also reports that on Thursday the Minister of Sports Development, Sen. John Owan Enoh, had a meeting with all the Federation’s president and their secretaries.
The meeting was to discuss the road map and training plan to make the country succeed in the upcoming Olympics Games.
Supreme News further reports that a total of 88 athletes have qualified for the Olympics Games, as many others are still in the qualification process before the closing windows.
Supreme News also reports that the 2024 summer Olympics Games is known as Paris 2024 upcoming international multisport event scheduled to take place from July 26 to Aug. 11 in France.
Paris is the main host city and 16 other cities spread across Metropolitan France, plus one subsite in Tahiti.