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Rafiatu Lawal won Nigeria’s second gold medal at the ongoing Birmingham Commonwealth Games after emerging tops in women’s weightlifting.
In the 59kg category, Lawal broke three games’ records to lift a combined total of 206kg.
Adeyinka Benson of Nigeria has qualified for the quarter-finals, in the boxing event of the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games after overcoming Ghana’s Abubakari Quartey.
In Sunday’s middleweight round of 16 contest, Benson edged Quartey three points to two to reach the last eight.
In another news
Sydney 2000 Olympic gold medallist Tafida Gadzama says Team Nigeria’s track and field team will surpass the record of three gold medals set at the 1990, 1994 and 2014 Commonwealth Games when the athletics event of the ongoing Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games begins on Tuesday.
The trio of Yusuf Alli (Long Jump), Adewale Olukoju (Discus Throw) and Fatimah Yusuf (400m) set the benchmark for most gold medals won at a single edition of the Games
in Auckland, New Zealand in 1990.
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