Recently updated on October 24th, 2022 at 03:35 pm
Nigeria emerged the overall champion of the five-day 5th African Wrestling Championship at the Alfred Diete Spiff Sports Complex in Port Harcourt.
The five-day competition witnessed wrestlers from African countries contesting for trophies in the Greco-Roman and Free Style models.
Nigeria came first in four major categories of the 5th African Wrestling Championship, which had 90 gold medals at stake. The country emerged tops in the cadet women wrestling, junior freestyle, senior women wrestling and senior freestyle wrestling. No fewer than 90 wrestlers represented Nigeria at the championship.
The team trophies were presented in this order:
- Cadet Free style; Algeria (Third Position), Nigeria (Second Place) and South Africa (First Place)
- Free style Cadet; Algeria (Third Position), Nigeria (Second Position), Egypt (First Position )
- Women Wrestling Cadet: Egypt (Third Position) Tunisia (Second Position) and Nigeria (First Position)
- Junior Category Free Style: Egypt (Third Position), Algeria (Second Position) and Nigeria (First Position)
- Junior Greco Roman: Egypt (Third Position), Nigeria (Second Position) and Egypt (First Position)
- Women Wrestling, Junior Category: Algeria (Third Position), Nigeria (Second Position), Tunisia (First Position)
- Senior Category Women Wrestling: Egypt (Third Position), Tunisia (Second Position), Nigeria (First)
- Senior Greco Roman: Morocco (Third Position), Algeria (Second Position), Egypt (First Position)
- Senior Free Style: Egypt (Third Position ), South Africa (Second Position) and Nigeria (First Position).
The participating countries were Nigeria, Liberia, Egypt, Morocco, Guinea-Bissau, Tunisia, Algeria, Namibia, Kenya, Burundi, Senegal, Ghana, Uganda, Sierra Leone, Central Africa Republic and Madagascar.
