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Five participants attended the competition with sponsorship from the Nigeria Weightlifting Federation, or NWF.
Nigerian weightlifters have persisted in producing outstanding achievements in their pursuit of qualification for the Olympics in Paris in 2024.
At the ongoing 2023 Senior African Weightlifting Championship in Tunisia, which also acts as an Olympic 2024 qualification event, two weightlifters from Nigeria, Edidiong Umofia and Joy Eze Ogbonne, won six more medals on Tuesday.
Joy Eze, who competed in the women's 71 kg division, earned three silver medals in the Snatch, Clean & Jerk, and Total events.
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Eze finished with three silver medals, just behind Egyptian Neama, who won the gold with a total lift of 227kg.
In order to win all three of the silver medals at the 2022 National Sports Festival, the gold medalist in the snatch lifted 102 kilograms, 125 kilograms, and 227 kilograms.
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Said Neama Said Fahmi of Egypt won the three gold medals available by lifting a total of 229 kg, while Ketty Lent of Mauritius came in third with three bronze medals after raising a total of 197 kg.
Edidiong Umofia, who took home bronze in the 2022 Commonwealth Games, placed second in the 73 kg men's snatch. In the Clean & Jerk and Total, he also took home two bronze medals.
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With a lift of 170 kilograms and 312 kilograms in the Clean & Jerk and Total events, respectively, Edidiong, who also won gold medals at the 2022 NSF, won silver with 142 kilograms and two bronze medals.
At the present Senior Africa Weightlifting Championship in Tunisia, Nigeria has earned a total of 12 medals.
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Remember how Lawal Rufiatu Folashade and Olarinoye Adenike Adijat started Nigeria's medal hunt on Monday with three gold and three silver medals, respectively.
The four lifters have so far qualified for the Olympics 2024 by winning three gold, seven silver, and two bronze medals at the competition.
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On Saturday, May 20, the Senior Africa Weightlifting Championship, which began in Tunisia on Wednesday last week, will come to an end.
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On Wednesday, Nigeria's participation in the competition would come to an end. Five participants attended the competition with sponsorship from the Nigeria Weightlifting Federation, or NWF.
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