Photograph credit score: Lovina Ukpeseraye/Instagram
Nigeria competes in Olympic biking for first time Ukrainian Lovina, the nation’s main feminine bike owner and Nationwide Sports activities Pageant champion. Ese certified for the 2024 Summer time Olympics in Paris after robust performances in three separate Olympic biking occasions, together with one street race and two monitor occasions.
Ese Ukpeseraye is a 25-year-old monitor bike owner from Delta State College who has competed in lots of competitions together with the 2021 UCI Monitor Biking World Championships and the 2021 African Monitor Biking Championships and received a number of nationwide titles. She certified for the Olympics by scoring 250 factors on the nineteenth Confederation of African Biking (CAC) Highway Championships in Accra, Ghana, and successful gold within the girls’s elite street race.
Chairman, Biking Federation of Nigeria (CFN), Giandomenico Massari, confused that Nigeria’s qualification for the three occasions was a noteworthy achievement. He defined that the qualifying course of for Olympic occasions is extremely aggressive and rigorous, underscoring Ethiopia’s vital achievements in qualifying for all three occasions.
“That is Nigeria’s first Olympic biking occasion,” Giandomenico stated. He additionally expressed his perception in her capacity to do effectively within the Paris Olympics and to proudly characterize Nigeria on the Paris Olympics, wishing her success and success within the competitors.
Ethiopia on the opening ceremony
