It is only three days to the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Nigerians are looking forward to performing better than the last outing in London where no medals were won.Here are some of the athletes Nigerians are looking up to for medals at the games.

Blessing Okhagbare would be looking for gold at the Rio Olympics

Blessing Okagbare of Nigeria celebrates winning gold in the Women’s 200m Final at Hampden Park during day eight of the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games on July 31, 2014 in Glasgow, United Kingdom. (Photo by Ian Walton/Getty Images)
1. Blessing Okagbare is arguably the most popular individual athlete from Nigeria that would be competing in the Rio Olympics apart from the Team Nigeria captain, Mikel Obi. Okagbare is a Nigerian track and field athlete who specialises in long jumping and short sprints. She is an Olympic and World Championships medalist in the long jump, and a world medallist in the 200 metres. She would be competing in the Women’s long jump, 100m 200m and 4x100m relay.

Segun Toriola looking to get a medal at his seventh consecutive olympics
Segun Toriola looking to get a medal at his seventh consecutive Olympics. He would be the first African with the most appearance at the Olympics this year
2. Segun Toriola is competing in the Olympic for a record seventh times at the Rio Olympics. He has won several international championships and tournaments. His biggest achievement at the Olympics has been reaching the Men’s Singles 1/16 final at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, beating amongst others former world number 1 Jean-Michel Saive as well as David Zhuang. His 1/32 match-up with Jean-Michel Saive was seen by many as one of the highlights of the Men’s Singles Tournament. He narrowly lost 4-3 to heavily favoured Oh Sang-Eun in the 1/16 final. The 41- year-old is yet to win an Olympic medal so he will be fighting hard to get one, after becoming the African with the most appearance at the Olympics.

3. Margaret Bamgbose is a 19-year-old quarter miler who would be wearing Nigeria’s colours at the Rio Olympics. She would be representing the country in the Athletics Women’s 400m dash and the Athletics Women’s 4 x 400m Relay. Bamgbose, who graduated from University of Notre Dame with a degree in Information Technology Management from the university’s Mendoza College of Business was the 2015 ACC Indoor 400 Meter Champion. She qualified for the Rio Olympics by placing third at the 2016 Nigeria Championships behind Patience George and Omolara Omotoso.


4. Mariam Usman is a Nigerian weightlifter. She would be competing in the +75 kg category. The 25-year-old won the overall silver at the 2007 All-Africa Games, with a total of 248 kg. She would be looking to up the ante at Rio.


5. Olu Olamigoke is a triple jumper. The 25-year-old won a silver medal for Nigeria at the Last All African Games in Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo. He will be representing Nigeria at the Rio Olympics in the Athletics Men’s Triple Jump.

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6. Tosin Oke is a Nigerian triple jumper. The 35-year-old with dual nationality initially competed for Great Britain. He set the current UK junior indoor record. He was the 1999 European Athletics Junior Championships Champion, and came 5th at the 2002 Commonwealth Games. After multiple indoor and outdoor UK titles, he later switched to compete for Nigeria. Since competing for Nigeria he has won back-to-back African Championships in Athletics titles and the Commonwealth Games championship and is the current All-Africa Games Champion. At the 2012 Summer Olympics Oke finished seventh in the triple jump final, the best Nigerian result of the Games. He would be looking to make that a medal this time.

Ukaoma Miles going for gold at the olympics

7. Miles Ukaoma is a US-born Nigerian hurdler. He competed in the 400 metres hurdles event at the 2015 World Championships in Beijing narrowly missing the semifinals. His personal best in the 400 metres hurdles is 48.84 seconds set in Warri in 2015. The 24-year-old was among the Nigerian relay team that got the silver medal at the 2014 African Championships held in Porto Novo, Benin republic.

Team Nigeria Basketball looking for a first Olympic gold at a second outing.


8. The Nigerian Basketball team − comprising Al-Farouq Aminu, Ekene Ibekwe, Michael Gbinije, Chamberlain Oguchi Alade Aminu, Josh Akognon Ebi Ere, Ike Diogu, Ben Uzoh and Michael Umeh – is one source the country’s sport fans would be looking to to make a haul of medals. Even though the team did not go far at the London Olympics four years ago, a lot of Nigerians are still hoping in them, looking at the individual qualities and skills of the team members. For example Diogu plays in the prestigious NBA tournament. While a number of the other team members play quality basketball in Puerto Rico.



9. Nigerian men’s football team has the hope of many fans to bring home a medal. One reason is that the predecessors of the Dream Team IV, broke the record in 1996 to become the first African team to win the Olympic team, beating the game’s big names including, Brazil and Argentina to win the gold. Subsequent dream teams have not been able to repeat the feat, but they have not performed too badly. This year’s team comprises the overall team Nigeria captain, Mikel Obi, Imoh Ezek...

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good

If we can get 5 gold medal is ok

You mean same D'Tigers that USA walloped earlier today?

yes why not?

dacovajnr:
You mean same D'Tigers that USA walloped earlier today?