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Nigeria’s Aruna Quadri settles for silver on final day of Commonwealth Games

NAN — Sun, 15 Apr 2018 17:23:48 +0000

Nigeria’s table tennis player Aruna Quadri settled for silver medal on the final day of Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia.

Singapore’s Gao Ning, who suffered shattering defeats in the 2010 and 2014 Commonwealth Games, beat Aruna 11-7 11-8 5-11 3-11 11-9 11-5 in the men’s singles final to collect his second table tennis gold of the day.

Gao said “it was one of those matches where sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. It could have gone either way. Today, I felt very calm.

“Twice I’ve been the runner up, now the winner but at the Commonwealth Games , I’ve won men’s team and men’s doubles gold medals… I’m happy to win, I just did my best.”

Gao and his team mate Yu Mengyu claimed the mixed doubles gold earlier in the day.

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Aruna Quadri crashes out of ITTF World Cup

NAN — Sat, 21 Oct 2017 15:46:26 +0000

Aruna Quadri, African Table Tennis Champion, has crashed out of the ongoing International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) World Cup in Liege, Belgium.

Quadri suffered a 6-11, 7-11, 6-11, 7-11 loss to Japan’s Jun Mizutani in the Round of 16 on Saturday.

He made this known on his twitter account shortly after his defeat.

According to him, it’s end of road for me in world cup.

“Lost 4-0 to Jun in round of 16 and he is so much stronger than me. Thanks to all that supported me.

“We keep the hard work going and hope for better results in future. Thanks to @premierbetng for the big support,” Quadri tweeted.

The African champion lost his first game to Korea’s Lee Sangsu.

He defeated Kanak Jha of U.S. in the preliminaries on Friday to book a clash with Rio Olympics bronze medalist Mizutani in the Round of 16.

The player had earlier signed a sponsorhip deal with premierbetng, popularly known as “Baba Ijebu’’, an online betting platform.

The tournament which began on Friday will end Sunday.

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Three Nigerians create records at Rio Olympics

Kayode Ogundele — Tue, 09 Aug 2016 21:04:03 +0000

At least three Nigerian athletes in the ongoing Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games created records of sorts that will be cherished in a longtime to come.

The trio with records are two table tennis stars, Segun Toriola and Aruna Quadri as well as Rower, Chierika Ukogu .

The 41 year-old Toriola had his 7th appearance in the current Games, equaling the table tennis record. This has made him the most capped African Olympian.

Nigeria’s Aruna Quadri set another continental record after the 2014 ITTF star became the first African to reach the quarterfinals of men’s singles event at Rio 2016 Olympic Games.

Ukogu on the other hand, qualified for top classification in the rowing event in Rio.

She is Nigeria’s first ever rower in the Olympics to have got that far, placing fifth in the third quarter final of the Women’s single sculls after clocking a time of 7:54.44 secs.

She will now participate in the semi finals C/D 1 event on Wednesday. This is the 23-year-old’s first ever appearance in the Olympics.

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