Nigeria’s Adekuoroye crashes out of Olympics wrestling

Nigeria’s Odunayo Adekuoroye lost 8-10 to China’s Hong Kexin on Thursday in the women’s freestyle 57-kilogramme event of the 2024 Olympic Games wrestling competition.

In the quarter-final match at the Champ-de-Mars Arena in Paris, both wrestlers were even by the end of the bout’s first period despite the Nigerian’s early lead.

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But Hong pulled away in the second period, scoring technical points freely as she headed into the semi-finals.

Adekuoroye had earlier in the day in the first round overcame Algerian Chaimaa Aouissi who got injured.