{"id":4958,"date":"2021-08-02T12:18:18","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T12:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=4958"},"modified":"2021-08-02T12:33:25","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T12:33:25","slug":"nigeria-wins-first-medal-at-tokyo-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=4958","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria Wins First Medal At Tokyo 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Team Nigeria is guaranteed of at least a Silver medal in the ongoing Tokyo 2020 Olympics Games as one of its wrestlers qualified for the final of her event.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Nigeria\u2019s Blessing Oburududu performed the feat on Monday, 2 August, 2021 in Tokyo when when she fought her way into the Olympics final in the 68kg class.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In her semi final match on Monday, Blessing defeated Battsetseg Soronzonboldyn of Mongolia 7-2 to qualify for the final and guaranteed herself and Team Nigeria at least a Silver medal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Blessing made her intention known earlier in the day when she defeated Elis Manolova of Azerbaijan 13-2 in her first match. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">She then defeated Meerin Zhumanazarova of Armenia 3-2 in a hard fought quarter final bout before beating Soronzonboldyn in the semi final.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Details later<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Team Nigeria is guaranteed of at least a Silver medal in the ongoing Tokyo 2020 Olympics Games as one of its wrestlers qualified for the final of her event. Nigeria\u2019s Blessing Oburududu performed the feat on Monday, 2 August, 2021 in Tokyo when when she fought her way into the Olympics final in the 68kg [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4961,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3136,3134,92,3137,3135,3138],"class_list":["post-4958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-blessing-oburududu","tag-medal","tag-nigeria","tag-olympic-games","tag-tokyo-2020","tag-wrestling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4958"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4960,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4958\/revisions\/4960"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}