{"id":21291,"date":"2024-03-10T12:02:46","date_gmt":"2024-03-10T12:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/african-games-nigeria-bags-first-medal-in-wrestling\/"},"modified":"2024-03-10T12:02:46","modified_gmt":"2024-03-10T12:02:46","slug":"african-games-nigeria-bags-first-medal-in-wrestling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/african-games-nigeria-bags-first-medal-in-wrestling\/","title":{"rendered":"African Games: Nigeria bags first medal in wrestling"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Nigeria\u2019s Nworie Emmanuel on Saturday won a bronze medal in the 77kg Greco-Roman event at the ongoing African Games in Accra, Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>Nworie defeated Hattingh Johannes of South Africa 11-0 superiority, after what seemed to be a controversial semifinal for the Nigerian wrestler.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking after the game, Emmanuel expressed dissatisfaction with his semifinal loss to his Egyptian opponent.<\/p>\n<p>He dominated almost the entire tie but was defeated through technical decisions by the umpires.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI really feel sad because of my semifinal defeat because I gave all my strength in the game to be able to play in the final.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dI play in the third place game with every power within me to secure the bronze medal match,\u201d Emmanuel said.<\/p>\n<p>Nigerian wrestlers will hope to better their performances on Sunday, in the women wrestling when Blessing Oborodudu and Odunayo Adekuoroye among others take to the mat.<\/p>\n<p>The wrestling event which started on Saturday is expected to end on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>African Games: Nigeria bags first medal in wrestling<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria\u2019s Nworie Emmanuel on Saturday won a bronze medal in the 77kg Greco-Roman event at the ongoing African Games in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8313,15,160,12059],"tags":[2783,1152,180,201,5936],"class_list":["post-21291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-african-games","category-news","category-sport","category-wrestling","tag-african","tag-games","tag-news","tag-sport","tag-wrestling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}