Nigeria at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Nigeria at the Olympic Games
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At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing
Competitors
Flag bearer	Bose Kaffo
Medals Rank: 60	Gold 0	Silver 1	Bronze 3	Total 4
Olympic history (summary)
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Nigeria competed in the 2008 Summer Olympics which were held in Beijing, People's Republic of China from August 8 to August 24, 2008.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
2 Silver	Nigeria national football team Olubayo Adefemi   Monday James Dele Adeleye   Sani Kaita Oluwafemi Ajilore   Chinedu Obasi Efe Ambrose   Victor Nsofor Obinna Victor Anichebe   Peter Odemwingie Onyekachi Apam   Chibuzor Okonkwo Emmanuel Ekpo   Solomon Okoronkwo Ikechukwu Ezenwa   Oladapo Olufemi Promise Isaac   Ambruse Vanzekin	Football	Men's competition
3 Bronze	Chika Chukwumerije	Taekwondo	Men's +80 kg
3 Bronze	Blessing Okagbare	Athletics	Women's long jump
3 Bronze	Franca Idoko Gloria Kemasuode Halimat Ismaila Oludamola Osayomi Agnes Osazuwa (heats only)	Athletics	Women's 4x100 metre relay

Athletics

Main article: Athletics at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Fourteen men and eighteen women qualified to represent Nigeria in athletics.^[1]

• men's 100m: Obinna Metu
• men's 100m: Olusoji Fasuba
• men's 100m: Adetoyi Durotoye
• men's 100m: Uchenna Emedolu
• men's 100m: Chinedu Oriala
• men's 100m: Onyeabor Nwaogu
• men's 100m: Deji Aliu
• men's 200m: Obinna Metu
• men's 400m: Goodday James
• men's 400m: Saul Weipogwa
• men's 400m: Bola Lawal
• men's 400m: Gbenga Awoleye
• men's 400m: Victor Isaiah
• men's 400m: Femi Ogunode
• men's 110m hurdles: Salim Nurudeen
• women's 100m: Damola Osayomi
• women's 100m: Franca Idoko
• women's 100m: Gloria Kemasuode
• women's 100m: Agnes Osazuwa
• women's 100m: Halimat Ismaila
• women's 100m: Kate Aregunmen
• women's 200m: Damola Osayomi
• women's 200m: Gloria Kemasuode
• women's 400m: Folashade Abugan
• women's 400m: Joy Eze
• women's 400m: Ajoke Odumosu
• women's 400m: Oluoma Nwoke
• women's 400m: Endurance Abinuwa
• women's 400m: Gladys Stephen
• women's 4x400m: Abugan, Eze, Odumosu, Nwoke, Abinuwa & Stephen
• women's 110m hurdles: Toyin Augustus
• women's 110m hurdles: Jessica Ohanaja
• women's high jump: Doreen Amata
• women's long jump: Blessing Okagbare
• women's triple jump: Chinonye Ohadugba
• women's shot put: Vivian Chukwuemeka

Badminton

Main articles: Badminton at the 2008 Summer Olympics and Badminton at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Qualification

Women

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Grace Daniel	Singles	Kristína Ludíková (CZE)  L 21-13 21-8	Did not advance

Boxing

Main articles: Boxing at the 2008 Summer Olympics and Boxing at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Qualification

Nigeria qualified four boxers for the Olympic boxing tournament. All four qualified at the second African continental qualifying tournament.^[2]

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Rasheed Lawal	Lightweight		Javakhyan (ARM) L 0-12	Did not advance
Dauda Izobo	Light heavyweight	Samir (GHA) L RSC	Did not advance
Olanrewaju Durodola	Heavyweight		Osmay Acosta (CUB) L 0-11	Did not advance
Onorede Ehwareme	Super heavyweight		Jakšto (LTU) L 1-11	Did not advance

Football

Main article: Football at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Men's competition

Team roster and tournament results

№	Player	Pos	GP	Min	G	S	F
1	Vanzekin, AmbruseAmbruse Vanzekin	GK	6	540				2
2	Okonkwo, ChibuzorChibuzor Okonkwo	D	5	450	1	13	7	2
4	Apam, OnyekachiOnyekachi Apam	D	5	450			9	4
5	Adeleye, DeleDele Adeleye	D	6	540		1	2
6	James, MondayMonday James	M	2	102		2	3
7	Ogbuke, ChineduChinedu Ogbuke	F	5	289	2	13	5	1
8	Kaita, SaniSani Kaita	M	6	540		6	8
9	Obinna, Victor NsoforVictor Nsofor Obinna	F	6	527	3	21	7	1
10	Isaac, PromisePromise Isaac	M	6	322	1	6	6
11	Okoronkwo, SolomonSolomon Okoronkwo	F	6	427		10	8
12	Ajilore, OluwafemiOluwafemi Ajilore	M	6	487		9	8	2
13	Adefemi, OlubayoOlubayo Adefemi	D	5	450	1	5	8	2
14	Odemwingie, PeterPeter Odemwingie	F	6	434	1	18	8
15	Ambrose, EfeEfe Ambrose	D	2	180			1
16	Anichebe, VictorVictor Anichebe	F	5	114	1	8	4
17	Ekpo, EmmanuelEmmanuel Ekpo	M	6	88		2	5
18	Ezenwa, IkechukwuIkechukwu Ezenwa	GK	0
19	Olufemi, OladapoOladapo Olufemi	M	0
Team totals			6	540	10	114	90	14	0	0

Legend: Pos – Position; GP – Games Played; Min – Minutes Played; G – Goals; S – Shots; F – Fouls committed; Yellow Cards; Second Yellow = Red Card; Red Cards

Source: BOCOG^[3]

Head coach: Samson Siasia

Match results

2008-08-07 19:45	Netherlands	0 – 0	Nigeria	Tianjin Olympic Centre Stadium, Tianjin Attendance: 52,390 Referee: Pablo Pozo (Chile)
		(Report)

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2008-08-10 17:00	Nigeria	2 – 1	Japan	Tianjin Olympic Centre Stadium, Tianjin Attendance: 42,592 Referee: Masoud Moradi (Iran)
	Obinna  58' Anichebe  74'	(Report)	Toyoda  79'

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2008-08-13 17:00	Nigeria	2 - 1	United States	Beijing Workers' Stadium, Beijing Attendance: 48,096 Referee: Wolfgang Stark (Germany)
	Isaac  39' Obinna  80'	(Report)	Kljestan  88'

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Nigeria	3	2	1	0	4	2	+2	7
Netherlands	3	1	2	0	3	2	+1	5
United States	3	1	1	1	4	4	0	4
Japan	3	0	0	3	1	4	−3	0

Women's Competition

Roster

#	Name	Club	Date of Birth	Pld	Goals	Y	Y/R	R
Goalkeepers
1	Precious Dede	Delta Queens F.C.	January 18, 1980(1980-01-18) (age 28)	0	0	0	0	0
18	Tochukwu Oluehi	Bayelsa Queens	May 2, 1987(1987-05-02) (age 21)	0	0	0	0	0
Defenders
2	Efioanwan Ekpo	Pelican Stars	January 25, 1984(1984-01-25) (age 24)	0	0	0	0	0
3	Ayisat Yusuf	Delta Queens F.C.	March 6, 1985(1985-03-06) (age 23)	0	0	0	0	0
10	Rita Chikwelu	United Pietarsaari	March 6, 1988(1988-03-06) (age 20)	0	0	0	0	0
11	Lilian Cole	Delta Queens F.C.	August 1, 1985(1985-08-01) (age 23)	0	0	0	0	0
16	Ulunma Jerome	Rivers Angels	April 11, 1988(1988-04-11) (age 20)	0	0	0	0	0
Midfielders
4	Perpetua Nkwocha	Sunnana SK	January 3, 1976(1976-01-03) (age 32)	0	0	0	0	0
6	Kikelomo Ajayi	Tianjin Teda F.C.	April 28, 1977(1977-04-28) (age 31)	0	0	0	0	0
7	Stella Mbachu	Tianjin Teda F.C.	April 16, 1978(1978-04-16) (age 30)	0	0	0	0	0
9	Sarah Michael	Delta Queens F.C.	July 22, 1990(1990-07-22) (age 18)	0	0	0	0	0
14	Faith Ikidi	Linkopings F.C.	February 28, 1987(1987-02-28) (age 21)	0	0	0	0	0
15	Tawa Ishola	Bayelsa Queens	December 23, 1988(1988-12-23) (age 19)	0	0	0	0	0
17	Edith Eduviere	FCT Queens	June 18, 1986(1986-06-18) (age 21)	0	0	0	0	0
Forwards
5	Onome Ebi	Bayelsa Queens	May 8, 1983(1983-05-08) (age 25)	0	0	0	0	0
8	Ifeanyi Chiejine	Bayelsa Queens	May 17, 1983(1983-05-17) (age 25)	0	0	0	0	0
12	Cynthia Uwak	Falkopings	July 15, 1986(1986-07-15) (age 22)	0	0	0	0	0
13	Christie George	Pelican Stars	May 10, 1984(1984-05-10) (age 24)	0	0	0	0	0
Coach
	Joseph Ladipo

Results

2008-08-06 19:45	North Korea	1 – 0	Nigeria	Shenyang Olympic Stadium, Shenyang Attendance: 24,804 Referee: Shane de Silva (Trinidad and Tobago)
	Kim Kyong-Hwa  27'	Report

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2008-08-09 17:00	Nigeria	0 – 1	Germany	Shenyang Olympic Stadium, Shenyang Attendance: 19,266 Referee: Jenny Palmqvist (Sweden)
		Report	Stegemann  65'

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2008-08-12 17:00	Nigeria	1 – 3	Brazil	Beijing Workers' Stadium, Beijing Attendance: 51,112 Referee: Hong Eun-ah (Korea Republic)
	Nkwocha  18' (pen.)	Report	Cristiane  33'  35'  45+3'

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Brazil	3	2	1	0	5	2	+3	7
Germany	3	2	1	0	2	0	+2	7
North Korea	3	1	0	2	2	3	−1	3
Nigeria	3	0	0	3	1	5	−4	0

Judo

Main articles: Judo at the 2008 Summer Olympics and Judo at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Qualification

Vivian Yusuf represented Nigeria in Judo. ^[4]

Women

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	First Repechage Round	Repechage Quarterfinals	Repechage Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Vivian Yusuf	−78 kg		Wollert (GER) L 0000-1000	Did not advance

Table Tennis

Main articles: Table tennis at the 2008 Summer Olympics and Table tennis at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Qualification

Men

Athlete	Event	Preliminary round	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Monday Merotohun	Singles	Zeng (TUR) L 2-4	Did not advance
Segun Toriola	Singles	Zhuang (USA) W 4-3	Monteiro (POR) W 4-3	Saive (BEL) W 4-2	Eun (KOR) L 3-4	Did not advance

A third man participated in the team event.

Men's Team

August 13

Nigeria	0–3	Japan
Nigeria	0–3	Hong Kong

August 14

Nigeria	3–2	Russia

Team	Pts	Pld	W	L	GW	GL
Japan	6	3	3	0	9	0
Hong Kong, China	5	3	2	1	6	4
Nigeria	4	3	1	2	3	8
Russia	3	3	0	3	3	9

Women

Athlete	Event	Preliminary round	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Bose Kaffo	Singles	Sang Xu Stephanie (AUS) L 4-1	Did not advance
Cecilia Offiong	Singles	Miao Miao (AUS) L 4-0	Did not advance

Women's Team

August 13

Nigeria	0–3	Netherlands
Nigeria	0–3	Singapore

August 14

Nigeria	0–3	United States

Team	Pts	Pld	W	L	GW	GL
Singapore	6	3	3	0	9	0
United States	5	3	2	1	6	4
Netherlands	4	3	1	2	4	6
Nigeria	3	3	0	3	0	9

Taekwondo

Main articles: Taekwondo at the 2008 Summer Olympics and Taekwondo at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Qualification

Muhammad Isah Adam and Chika Chukwumerije represented Nigeria in Taekwondo.^[5]

Men'

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Bronze Medal Contest
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Muhammad Isah Adam	−68 kg	Islas (MEX) W 3-1	Lopez (PER) L 0-3	Did not advance
Chika Chukwumerije	+80 kg	Hung (VIE) W 3-1	Keita (MLI) W 1-0	Nikolaidis (GRE) L 2-3	Irgashev (UZB) W 4-3

Weightlifting

Main articles: Weightlifting at the 2008 Summer Olympics and Weightlifting at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Qualification

Men

Athlete	Event	Snatch		Clean & Jerk		Total	Rank
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Felix Ekpo	-77 kg	143.0	18	182.0	14	325.0	15
Benedict Uloko	-85 kg	148.0	16	191.0	13	339.0	13

Women

Athlete	Event	Snatch		Clean & Jerk		Total	Rank
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Mariam Usman	+75 kg	115.0	=6	150.0	=2	265.0	5

Swimming

Main article: Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Athlete	Event	Heat	Time	Place
Yellow Yeiyah	Men's 50m freestyle	Heat 6	24.00	55
Ngozi Monu	Women's 50m freestyle	Heat 6	27.39	52

Wrestling

Main articles: Wrestling at the 2008 Summer Olympics and Wrestling at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Qualification

Men's Freestyle

Athlete	Event	Qualification	1/8 Final	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage Round 1	Repechage Round 2	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Wilson Siewari	−120 kg		Musuľbes (SVK) L 0-3, 0-6	Did not advance

Women's Freestyle

Athlete	Event	Qualification	1/8 Final	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage Round 1	Repechage Round 2	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Amarachi Obiajunwa	−72 kg		Bernard (USA) L F	Did not advance

See also

• Nigeria at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
• Nigeria at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
• Nigeria at the 2010 Commonwealth Games

References

1. ^ "Metu, Fasuba, Amata make Nigeria's squad for Beijing Olympics", Xinhua, July 6, 2008
2. ^ 2nd AIBA African Olympic Boxing Qualifying Tournament
3. ^ "Football Men Cumulative Statistics". The official website of the BEIJING 2008 Olympic Games. Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad. http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/ENG/INF/FB/C84A/NGR_M.shtml. Retrieved 2008-08-29. 
4. ^ "Nigeria's only female judoka for Olympics leaves for overseas training", Xinhua, June 2, 2008
5. ^ "Nigerian Taekwondo team departs for Germany", Xinhua, July 28, 2008