AS THE TWENTY-EIGHTEEN GOLD COAST COMMONWEALTH GAMES COMES
TO AN END TODAY AT THE CARRARA STADIUM IN QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA HERE’S A
RUNDOWN OF SOME OF NIGERIA’S PERFORMANCE AT THE EVENT
NIGERIA CONCLUDED EVENTS WITH ONE GOLD, THREE SILVER AND
ONE BRONZE
THE COUNTRY EFFECTIVELY DROPPED FROM THE EIGHTH POSITION IT
HELD ON FRIDAY TO NINTH.
IN ALL, TEAM NIGERIA CARTED AWAY NINE GOLD, EIGHT SILVER
AND SIX BRONZE MEDALS, MAKING THEM THE SECOND HIGHEST-RANKED AFRICAN TEAM ON
THE MEDAL TABLE BEHIND FIFTH-PLACE SOUTH AFRICA, WHO HAVE THIRTEEN GOLD, ELEVEN
SILVER AND THIRTEEN BRONZE.
THE NEXT AFRICAN COUNTRY ON THE MEDAL TABLE IS KENYA, WHICH
OCCUPY THE THIRTEEN POSITION WITH FOUR GOLD, SEVEN SILVER AND SIX
HOST AUSTRALIA EMERGED WINNERS WITH SEVENTY-FIVE GOLD, FIFTY-FIVE
SILVER AND FIFTY-SEVEN BRONZE WITH ENGLAND 42 GOLD, 40 SILVER AND 41 BRONZE,
AND INDIA 25 GOLD, 16 SILVER AND 18 BRONZE, COMING SECOND AND THIRD
RESPECTIVELY.
TEAM NIGERIA WON THEIR FIRST MEDAL AT THE GAMES ON MONDAY
COURTESY OF THE TABLE TENNIS MEN’S TEAM, WHO UNFORTUNATELY LOST TO INDIA 3-0 IN
THE FINAL.
HOWEVER, IT WAS PARALYMPICS RECORD-HOLDER ROLAND EZURUIKE
WHO WON THE COUNTRY’S FIRST GOLD A DAY LATER WHEN HE LIFTED 224.3KG IN THE
PARA-POWERLIFTING LIGHTWEIGHT CATEGORY WITH COMPATRIOT PAUL KEHINDE SETTLING
FOR SILVER WITH A 219.9KG LIFT.
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