Despite his exit from the table tennis men's singles event of the ongoing Rio 2016, the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) plans to organise a ceremony in Rio to honour Segun Toriola, for his Olympic feat after making his seventh appearance at the Games, being the first African to achieve the feat.

This was revealed in a press release by ITTF Africa.

Toriola's participation at the ongoing Rio 2016 Olympic Games came to an end on Sunday August 7 after he was edged out by Japan’s Niwa Koki in the men’s singles event of table tennis.

Toriola who is ranked 120 in the world, had on Saturday beaten Czech Republic’s Dimitrij Prokopcov in the first round.

The 41-year-old made his debut at the Games in 1992 in Barcelona.

His best ever performance at the Games was in Beijing 2008 where he got to the quarter-finals.

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http://www.nigerianeye.com/2016/08/rio-2016-ittf-to-honour-segun-toriola.html
http://pulse.ng/sports/tennis/segun-toriola-ittf-to-honour-nigerian-tennis-veteran-id5355019.html

nice

Honour coming from abroad but here at home

the labours of our heroes are forgotten both in life and death

7th Olympic appearance,he must have suffer a lot for Nigeria and he still there. Naijabet man say so

meltiplexer:
7th Olympic appearance,he must have suffer a lot for Nigeria and he still there. Naijabet man say so

not a mean feat



1992 - Barcelona, Spain

1996 - Atlanta, United States

2000 - Sydney, Australia

2004 - Athens, Greece

2008 - Beijing, China

2012 - London, United Kingdom

2016 - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

stand up for the giant of African table tennis

good

An honour well deserved. Thats about 20+ years of service to Nigeria!

Nigeria will never honour their own

ihatebuhari

This guy should become an ambassador...

He has tried.

kingofthejungle:
Nigeria will never honour their own


ihatebuhari

and ihateyou for that statement...
is the tournament finish that u would honour a player....
or na buhari dey dr since all dis while he is representing Nigeria....
or did expresident Jonathan or obj honor him..

If the Nigeria body of tennis player did not Make advance to honor him., Who am I to blame the president
#thinkb4utalk

News like this makes me want to hate Nigeria and its selfish evil leaders.

Congrats Toriola.

Ok, nice one....

Honour well deserved

Nigerian Michael Phelps at least by apperance.

41 year old? No way, maybe 51!

robosky02:



not a mean feat



1992 - Barcelona, Spain

1996 - Atlanta, United States

2000 - Sydney, Australia

2004 - Athens, Greece

2008 - Beijing, China

2012 - London, United Kingdom

2016 - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

stand up for the giant of African table tennis

you should be listing medals not appearances

Barselonia:
and ihateyou for that statement

zombie alert

kingofthejungle:
zombie alert

wailer confirmed

By now, he should have trained someone to replace him

I suspend tribalism now and SALUTE this legend! Honour to whom Hounour is due! God bless you man! making Nigeria proud!

7 olympics....24years ... Segun toriola 3 gbosa for U.

Noneroone:
you should be listing medals not appearances

talk is cheap
toriola has done well
he did not just jump into the olympics
he went through africa qualifiers- to have done so consistently is commendable

Noneroone:
you should be listing medals not appearances

Ugandan spotted

Noneroone:
you should be listing medals not appearances

Which one did you win?

Noneroone:
you should be listing medals not appearances

the hall mark of champions is consistency

its not easy to be consistent for 7 Olympics hmmm


that is 7 times 4 years

you do the mathematics. and sure if its YOU

you would have left table tennis and gone for fishing

your labour to this your fatherland shall not be in vain. Amen

its no mean feat even the whites envy him

We know his type---always bribing his way through? So How many olympic medals?

You've fought a good fight.....

Congratulations