AFRICAN WRESTLING CHAMPIONSHIPS: Oborodudu Confident Of Winning 8th Successive Gold Medal
Blessing Oborodudu says she is confident of claiming an 8 th successive continental gold medal at the 2018 African Wrestling Championships in Port Harcourt. The 7-time African wrestling Champion, who is seeking an 8 th title, will have to do so in a new weight category, 68 kg. She formerly competed in the 63 kg class. Nonetheless, she told Nigeria Wrestling Federation Media that she is ready to defend her African crown in her new weight category, adding that preparation for the African Championships has been going on well. “The preparation for the African Championship has been good, we have been in camp for about three weeks,” the Bayelsa-born freestyle wrestler said. “So I’m ready to go. “This will be my 8 th time of winning the African Championship, and this 2018 is in a different class (68kg). It is no more 63 kg again. “I’m equally preparing for them (the wrestlers in that weight clas...