Glasgow 2014: Welson Wins Freestyle Wrestling Silver, Ex-Champion Boltic Bronze

Ebikweminomo Welson (red) Lost to India’s Amit Kumar (Blue) in Men’s 57kg Freestyle Wrestling on Tuesday. Image: AP.

Team Nigeria’s wrestler took the country’s struggle for more medals in their own hands on Day 6 of the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games, winning silver and three bronze medals to take the country’s medal haul to 14.

Nigeria occupied the 12th position on the medal standings at the end of Tuesday’s Medal Events, with Ebikweminomo Welson, 21, donned in silver following his 6-2 loss to India’s Amit Kumar in the final of the men’s 57kg freestyle wrestling.

The trio of Blessing Onyebuchi, 30, Sinivie Boltic, 32, and Melvin Bibo, 37, all claimed bronze.
Welson’s cruised into the final after successive 4-0 wins each, over eventual Bronze medalist, Wales’ Craig Piling (in the semi-final), and England’s Omar Tafail in the quarter-final.

Blessing Okagbare wins silver medal at IAAF World Championships

Nigerian athlete Blessing Okagbare has won Nigeria's first medal at the ongoing IAAF World Championships in Moscow, Russia. Blessing won the silver medal in the long jump event final today Sunday August 11th after jumping an impressive 6.99m.  The last time Nigeria won a medal at the Athletic World Championship was in 1999.