OBORUDUDU Blessing

Nigeria
Wrestling
12 Mar 1989
32
Female
Olympic Scholarship
 
Nigeria
YENAGOA
 
Nigeria

Events and Medals

Discipline Event Rank Medal
WRE Wrestling Women's Freestyle 68kg 2 Silver Medal

Schedule

Change
Start Time Location Event Status
Followed by 		Makuhari Messe Hall A Mat B
Women's Freestyle 68kg 1/8 Final
#66
AZE
MANOLOVA EMANOLOVA Elis
2
NGR
OBORUDUDU BOBORUDUDU Blessing
13
VSU1
Finished
Followed by 		Makuhari Messe Hall A Mat B
Women's Freestyle 68kg 1/4 Final
#70
KGZ
ZHUMANAZAROVA MZHUMANAZAROVA Meerim
2
NGR
OBORUDUDU BOBORUDUDU Blessing
3
VPO1
Finished
Followed by 		Makuhari Messe Hall A Mat B
Women's Freestyle 68kg Semifinal
#90
MGL
SORONZONBOLD BSORONZONBOLD Battsetseg
2
NGR
OBORUDUDU BOBORUDUDU Blessing
7
VPO1
Finished
Followed by 		Makuhari Messe Hall A Mat B
Women's Freestyle 68kg Final
#157
USA
MENSAH STOCK TMMENSAH STOCK Tamyra Mariama
4
VPO1
NGR
OBORUDUDU BOBORUDUDU Blessing
1
Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

:
Olympic Games
RankEventYearLocation
14Freestyle 63kg2016Rio de Janeiro, BRA
18Freestyle 63kg2012London, GBR

World Championships
RankEventYearLocation
5Freestyle 63kg2017Paris, FRA
7Freestyle 68kg2019Nur-Sultan, KAZ
11Freestyle 59kg2010Moscow, RUS
12Freestyle 68kg2018Budapest, HUN
19Freestyle 63kg2011Istanbul, TUR
22Freestyle 59kg2009Herning, DEN

African Games
RankEventYearLocation
1Freestyle 68kg2019El Jadida, MAR

African Championships
RankEventYearLocation
1Freestyle 68kg2020Algiers, ALG
1Freestyle 68kg2019Hammamet, TUN
1Freestyle 68kg2018Port Harcourt, NGR
1Freestyle 63kg2017Marrakech, MAR

Ranking Series
RankEventYearLocation
2Freestyle 68kg2021Warsaw, POL
3Freestyle 68kg2020Rome, ITA
3Freestyle 68kg2019Istanbul, TUR
7Freestyle 68kg2019Ruse, BUL
12Freestyle 68kg2018Budapest, HUN
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Athlete
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Business Administration - Nigeria Delta University, Nigeria
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English
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Bayelsa State [Yenagoa, NGR]
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Purity Akuh [national]
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She began wrestling at St Jude's Girls Secondary School in Yenagoa, Nigeria. (vanguardngr.com, 09 Feb 2020)
:
"I loved doing wrestling at school. I was the best at my school. My parents used to tell me [wrestling] was for men, it's not for ladies. But when I saw female wrestlers in Nigeria doing well, travelling outside the country, I said to myself, 'I want to be travelling like them'." (olympicchannel.com, 31 Jan 2020; vanguardngr.com, 09 Feb 2020)
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To win a gold medal at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (olympicchannel.com, 31 Jan 2020)
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Winning gold in the 68kg category at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, QLD, Australia. (olympicchannel.com, 31 Jan 2020)
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Canadian freestyle wrestler Daniel Igali. (olympicchannel.com, 31 Jan 2020)
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"As a woman being a wrestler, you feel more pain in your body. Some days when you wake up, you aren't able to get up. Sometimes you feel so weak that you can't go to training. Sometimes, my coach will call me in the morning and ask, 'Blessing, are you ready for training?' That motivates me and after training, all the pain is gone." (mpelembe.net, 03 Sep 2013)
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She was named Best Female Wrestler at the 2013 Commonwealth Championships in Johannesburg, South Africa. (vanguardngr.com, 08 Dec 2013)

General Interest

General
FUTURE PLANS
She says the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo will be her final Olympic Games. She hopes to stay involved in the sport after retiring from competition. "I think this Olympics will be my last Olympics. If I retire from wrestling, I will like to be a coach or a referee or be an administrator in an office, but I wish to be a coach." (olympicchannel.com, 31 Jan 2020; vanguardngr.com, 09 Feb 2020)

LEADER
She has served as captain of the Nigerian women's freestyle wrestling team. (punchng.com, 29 Mar 2016)

EDUCATION
In January 2020 she graduated with a degree in business administration from Niger Delta University. "Combining wrestling and going to school was not easy at all. My late elder brother wanted me to go to school and not be a wrestler. So I promised him I would go to school no matter what. After wrestling for some time, I decided to go to school in 2012. I really wanted to have different knowledge outside wrestling." (thenationonlineng.net, 30 Jan 2020)

Legend
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Silver Medal
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Gold Medal Event
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Silver Medal Event
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Bronze Medal Event
VPO1:
Victory by points - with point(s) scored by the opponent
VSU1:
Victory by technical superiority - with point(s) scored by the opponent
Content 1 (removed through CDN)
Content 2 (removed through CDN).
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