Tokyo Olympics: Blessing Oborududu loses final in wrestling, wins Nigeria’s first silver
Blessing Oborududu lost the final of the 68kg women’s freestyle wrestling event 4-1 to America’s Tamyra Mensah-Stock on Tuesday.
But she, however, won silver in the process, earning Nigeria her only second medal at this year’s Olympics.
The 32-year-old had defeated Azerbaijani’s Elis Manolova and Meerim Zhumanazarova of Kyrgyzstan to advance to her first Olympic semi-finals.