COMMONWEALTH champion Odunayo Adekuoroye has moved one
step up in the latest rankings, and is now the second-best wrestler in the
world in her 57kg weight class, while nine-time African champion, Blessing
Oborududu climbed to number four in the 68kg category.
In the latest rankings released by the United World
Wrestling, Adekouroye, who won a bronze medal at last month’s World
Championships in Kazakhstan, is now second with 73 points, three points behind
2018 world champion Ningning Rong of China, while Norwegian Grace Bullen is
placed third with 66points.
Oborududu, a Commonwealth gold medalist herself, is in
4th place with 48pts, behind top-rated Swede, Anna Fransson (56pts), Alla
Cherkasova (52pts) of Ukraine and Battsetseg Soronzonbold (51pts) of Mongolia.
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| Oborududu |
Nigeria’s duo of Blessing Onyebuchi (76kg) and Mercy
Genesis (50kg), who are currently in Doha, Qatar for the inaugural ANOC World
Beach Games, are ranked 15th and 18th respectively, while Commonwealth champion
Aminat Adeniyi (62kg) is rated 20th in the world.
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| Aminat Adeniyi |
African champion Sunmisola Balogun is also ranked 12th in
the 65kg class with 18 points.
In the men’s freestyle category, Emmanuel Ogbonna John is
placed 14th in the 74kg weight class with 18 points. The 3-time African
champion is the only Nigerian male wrestler in the top 20 across the 10 weight
classes.
No Nigerian made it to the top 20 in the Greco Roman
style.
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