Team Nigeria finishes Paris 2024 without medal

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Team Nigeria has finished its campaign at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games without winning a single medal.

Hannah Reuben was the last athlete left to salvage a medal for Nigeria, but she lost her second round fight in women’s freestyle #wrestling 76kg, losing 5-2 (Victory by points) to Mongolia’s Davaanasan Amar Enkh.

It has been a chastening Olympics for Nigerian Sports, the country’s worst outing at the global showpiece since London 2012.

Team Nigeria has hopes of winning medals courtesy of the likes of Tobi Amusan, Favour Ofili and Ese Brume but it ended in disappointment as they all faltered.

Nigeria’s participation at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France was the 18th time that the country would take part in the global sports competition.

Team Nigeria first participated in the Summer Olympics back in the year 1952 and has sent athletes to compete in every edition since then except for the boycotted one in 1976.

Nigeria has so far won 27 medals (3 gold, 11 silver, 13 bronze), mostly in athletics and boxing with the football team winning gold in Atlanta 1996.

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