Starting on Saturday, Nigeria’s Olympic medal hopeful Elizabeth Anyanacho will take part in the Africa Taekwondo Championships, which is currently taking place in Dakar, Senegal in view of the upcoming Tokyo Olympics in Japan.
The 2021 edition of the two-day Championship commences on Saturday, June 5 and will wrap up on Sunday, June 6 at the Dakar Arena of the host country.
Anyanacho departed for the championship aboard an Air Cote D’Ivoire in company of African Champion, Chinazum Nwosu, Olympic medalist Chika Chukwumerije, her sparring partner and physiotherapist, with whom she had been preparing for the Olympics.
For the Olympic hopeful, the Africa Taekwondo Championships is the last major ranked event before Anyanacho heads to Japan for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics next month.
The 22-year-old taekwondoist, is a 300-level Statistics student at the Federal University of Technology Owerri (FUTO). She is Nigeria’s only female to qualify for the Olympics in Taekwondo after Princess Dudu did the same at the Athens Olympics of 2004.
Team Nigeria believes in her determination and focus and her taekwondo event is one where there is a high chance of the Nigerian contingent to come home with a medal.
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