17-year-old Abiola Ogunbanwo has set a new national record by becoming the first Nigerian woman to finish the 100 meters swimming freestyle under a minute.
She achieved the feat on the 28th of July 2021 at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre during the Tokyo Olympics in Japan having won Heat 1 of the swimming event in 59.74 seconds.
With the feat, she has broken a longstanding Nigerian record of 1:00.50 set by Ngozi Monu, which had served as the benchmark since 2007.
Team Nigeria captain, Aruna Quadri, has emerged the highest-rated African table tennis player.
The Nigerian has been seeded number 15 among the players in the men’s singles competition of the table tennis event at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
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Maduka Okoye has been voted the best player of the 2020/2021 season at Sparta Rotterdam in the Eredivisie, the top flight of Dutch professional football.
The Super Eagles goalkeeper featured in 28 league matches for Sparta Rotterdam and had 10 clean sheets with a 68% save rate. He also saved one of the three penalties that he faced and made just two errors leading to a goal throughout the season.
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Team Danzinger, represented by the duo of Bola Afolabi and O.R.M Oladapo has emerged winner of the 2021 World Corporate Golf Challenge (WCGC) [Nigeria].
The event organised in Nigeria by Falcon Golf Development Company (FGDC) was decided at Ibom Icon Hotel and Golf Resort in Uyo, Akwa Ibom state.
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Adekuoroye Odunayo Folasade has won Gold medal in the 57 kg Women event at the United World Wrestling (UWW) Ziolkowski, Pytlasinski, Poland Open Ranking Series 2021.
The two times Commonwealth gold medalist’s strength was too much for Iryna Kurachkina in the final, which took place on the 11th of June 2021, as the Belarusian withdrew from the bout due to injury.
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Onuachu Paul of KRC Genk has emerged winner of the 2021 Ebony Shoe Award recognizing him as the best African player in the Belgium football top-flight.
The striker saw off competition from Club Brugge’s Clinton Mata (Angola) and Genk’s Theo Bongonda (DR Congo) to the prize to succeed Dieumerci Mbokani – who represents Royal Antwerp.
The Ebony Shoe prize is an annual award given to the best African player in the Belgian Pro League.
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Ese Brume has set a new Personal Best (PB), National/Nigerian Record (NR) and African Record (AR) of 7.17 meters (1.1m/s) in the long jump event at the Chula Vista Field Festival in the United States of America on May 29th, 2021.