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12th African Games: Taekwondo wins Team Nigeria first gold medal

Taekwondo event has fetched Team Nigeria its first gold medal at the 12th African Games after Chinazum Nwosu claimed the gold medal in the women -53kg.

Taekwondo wins Team Nigeria first gold medal in Morocco
Chinazum Nwosu has claimed the first gold medal for Team Nigeria

Sunday Onofe (-87kg) and Benjamin Okuomose (+87kg) added two bronze medals in the men event.

Also, the quest for medals in taekwondo will continue today August 22 in six events just as the trio of Arinola Abdullateef, Bright Kolade, and Chiamaka Onumonu have declared they are good enough to make it to the podium.

In cycling, Kenya’s Tiffany Keep and Namibia’s Tristan De Lange won cross-country gold in Casablanca.

Kenyan Keep claimed the women’s title in 1hr 19min 15.377sec, finishing almost 50 seconds ahead of Aurelie Marie Halbwachs from Mauritius.

Halbwachs took the silver medal in the 22.8 kilometres course, made up of six 3.8km circuits in Rabat, in a time of 1:20:03.900.

Her compatriot Kimberley Le Court De Billot completed the podium in 1:22:52.541.

De Lange won Namibia’s first gold of the continental tournament in the men’s 30.4km race.

He led home compatriot Alexander Miller to take the top step on the medal rostrum in 1:24:45.502.

Miller clocked 1:25:31.847 for second, with Tunisian Maher Habouria taking bronze in 1:29:52.145.

Algeria won three of the four A finals as the first of the rowing medals were awarded in Morocco.

Nawel Chiali got the gold rush started in the women’s single sculls 1,000m final. She surged to victory in 3:56.62 as Dareen Hegazy of Egypt took silver in 3:58.34. Nour Elhouda Ettaieb of Tunisia finished third in 4:01.10.

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