Olympics: Weightlifting Federation Aims To Make Nigeria Proud
President of the Nigeria Weightlifting Federation (NWF), Ibrahim Abdul, said the federation will make the country proud at the upcoming Paris 2024 Olympic Games in France.
Abdul said the target of the federation is to achieve the highest levels of success by winning gold medals and finish on the podium in Paris. He said two athletes will represent the federation at the upcoming Olympic Games.
“We have gone through all the part ways for the Olympics and we have qualified two athletes. We are currently in camp and we are training in the camp,” he said
He explained that the two athletes would also participate in the two week camp in Paris before the Olympics commenced.
“The African weightlifting Associations have also organised to camp all African athletes that qualified for the Olympics Games from July 12th – 25th in France,” Abdul added.
“We also want to align with that of the Ministry but currently we are in camp and everything is going on well. We are going to have a training camp abroad that’s with our African body training camp.”
Team Nigeria’s Rafiatu Lawal (women’s 59 kg) and Joy Eze (women’s 71 kg) secured two of the top ten slots in their weight divisions based on the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) Olympic Qualification Ranking finals.
Nigeria’s Minister of Sports Development, Senator John Owan Enoh, had a meeting with all the Federation’s president and their secretaries earlier in the week. The meeting was to discuss the road map and training plan to make the country succeed in the upcoming Olympics Games.
A total of 88 athletes have qualified for the Olympics Games, as many others are still in the qualification process before the window closes.
The Paris 2024 Olympic Games is scheduled to take place from July 26th – 11th August 2024 in France. Paris is the main host city and 16 other cities spread across Metropolitan France, plus one subsite in Tahiti.
