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The newly elected Nigeria Wrestling Federation President, Dr. Bashir Adewale Adeniyi, has begun his NWF reign with two priceless medals as Esther Kolawole and Christianah Ogunsanya secured two bronze medals at the u23 World Wrestling Championships in Serbia. While the Comptroller General of the Nigeria Customs Service was being inaugurated as NWF President on Saturday by the National Sports Commission, Kolawole and Ogunsanya were cooking something special to usher him into office. Esther Kolawole (62k) on the road to the 3rd place match beat Hungarian Yasmine Soliman 10-0 superiority before losing to Iryna Bondar of Ukraine The resilience of the reigning African champion saw her triumph gallantly in the Repachage match against Savita Savita of India 16-4, and followed that up with a dominant display of 8-1 over Venezuelan Astrid Paolo Montero to secure the bronze medal. In the same vein, another Reigning African champion in the 53kg, Christinah Ogunsanya mercilessly defeated UWW Ekaterina Kapushkina 10-0 in the first round match. She then consolidated on the win with yet another convincing victory over Canadian Serena Rosa Di Benedcgo to qualify for the quarter-finals. Read Also: NFF, Jalla bicker over planned workshop on amendment of statues at Ibadan AGM Ogunsanya’s 10-6 triumph over Suiyi Chen of China catapulted her into the Semifinals, where she sadly lost 3-5 to Japanese Haruna Marikawa. In the bronze medal match, Christinah Ogunsanya left no stone unturned as she brutally showed her mettle with 8-0 victory over Brianna Elizabeth Gonzalez of USA. In his reaction to the display of Esther and Christianah, Adeniyi lauded the heroic performance of the duo, stressing it was a perfect inauguration present. “I want to salute our gallant wrestlers for this feat. This is a perfect way to begin our journey. We are a winning Federation, and it has started,” he said. “For future tournaments, our preparations will be better. We will scrutinise our previous performances with more hard work, determination, and planning to do better.” Adeniyi said.
