Team Lagos Win 2 Gold Medals In Judo, Taekwondo, Haul In More Medals On Day 3

TAIWO ADELU

Adewunmi Akintunde after winning her gold medal of judo even Saturday.

On Day 3 of the ongoing 19^th National Sports Festival in Abuja, Team Lagos registered their name on the gold column of the medal table with two gold medals which came in succession Saturday night.

The two gold medals came in from judo and taekwondo. Adewunmi Akintunde was at his best during the +78kg category in the judo event beating Rita James from Kano to win the first gold for the state.

PM EXPRESS reports that it was not an easy road for Akinwunmi. She beat Osubor Patience (Ogun) to qualified for the quarter finals, defeated Bose Ajayi (Delta) to make it to the semi final and got the best out of Ekem (Rivers) to qualified for the final, before winning the gold medal at the expense of Kano State’s Rita James.

The trio of Rokeeb Arowora, Ibrahim Idris and Rosheed Amusat won gold medal in the team event-proomsse (male), while the trio of Aminat Idrees, Beauty Ditu and Kadijah Abdulrazak won silver medal in the team event –mixed proomsee (female) of taekwondo. In individual (male) of taekwondo event, Arowora Rokeeb won bronze medal for Lagos State. In individual (female), Aminat Idrees won a bronze medal, while in taekwondo Team Pair, Arowora Rokeeb and Aminat Idrees won silver medal.

Interestingly, Akeem Yusuf, captain of para powerlifting team won silver medal in the class of 72kg and a call up to the national team camp. Kole Ojo of Lagos State also won bronze medal in the 65kg class of para powerlifting.

Para powerlifter Kole Ojo

Two more bronze medals were won on Saturday in the swimming events. The Olopedes were the winners of the bronze medals. While Smart Olopede won bronze in 100m breaststroke men, His sister, Mercy won in the 50m breaststroke women in the event watched by the Minister of Sports, Solomon Dalung.

In some of the results recorded by Team Lagos on Saturday, the team defeated Team Abuja 29 points to 23 points. In Table Tennis Team events which are coming up for the first time in the National Sports Festival, Team Lagos female team beat their counterparts from Ogun State 3-0, while the male table tennis team from Lagos defeated Team Abia 3-1.

Team Lagos will begin defence of their football gold in the last Eko 2012 Games when they take on Bayelsa in their first match of the Abuja 2018 featival by 9am on Sunday at the practice pitch of the National Stadium, Abuja.

The Lagos team also won their cricket match against Team Kwara by 8 wickets.