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| Chukwumerije, Founder, CCSF |
Two Athletes Elizabeth
Anyanacho and Peter Itiku from Chika Chukwumerije Sports Foundation, CCSF have
returned back to Nigeria after they took part in the annual international
Taekwondo Open in far away Dakar, Senegal.
While Anyanacho who competed in the 67kg category
defeated all her opponents including athlete from host country and won gold
medal, Itiku put up spirited performance to win bronze in the -80kg.
Giving account of how they fared at the competition
being the second tournament both athletes have so far taken part outside
Nigeria this year, their handler Chika Chukwumerije noted that beside winning
medals at the highly competitive stages, where fighters from United States,
Belgium, Italy among other converged, the Nigerian duo surely gave good account
of themselves.
Chukwumerije further remarked; “The only two
athletes that went from Nigeria hit their target in Dakar. This is actually
their third competitive championship since I started training them. First was
when they competed at Accra in January then the CCSF Prix series weeks back,
before they went to Dakar. Its amazing the kind of result they have posted.
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| Taekwondo action |
“Apart from the medals which they won after
competing against athletes from United states, Italy, Senegal, Mali and others,
our athletes did very well. Judging from their performance so far, I’m quite
sure that the athletes we have can compete favourably and win nothing less than
three medal at the next African Games.
“I
wish we have a lot more support, we would have won more medals. In no long
distant time, these athletes will start attending World Taekwondo Federation,
WTF-sanctioned tournament. By then, they would have become black belt holders.”
The Taekwondo which held between March 17 and 19
witnessed no fewer than 340 athletes that took part from 20 various countries
including USA, France, Italy, Cote D’Ivoire, Belgium, Morocco, India, Yemen,
Cameroun, Ghana, Mali, Niger Republic, Cape Verde, Guinea, Guadeloupe, Angola,
Central African Republic, Burkina Faso and host country, Senegal.
The Nigerian delegation was led by two-time African
champion Elizabeth Binga.
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