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Africa-Press – Ethiopia. <\/strong><\/span>Team Nigeria won six more gold medals in the weightlifting event at the 13th African Games on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Ruth Ayodele won three gold medals in the 64kg, lifting total (208kg), snatch (94kg), and clean and jerk (114kg).<\/p>\n

Also, Joy Eze won three gold medals in the 71kg, lifting total (207kg), snatch (90kg), clean and jerk (117kg).<\/p>\n

Nigeria has total domination in the weightlifting event at the games.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the quartet of Colins Ebingha, Clinton Opute, Abduljabar Adama and Tobi Sijuade won bronze medal in men\u2019s 4x100m freestyle relay with a time of 3:26.01s.<\/p>\n

South Africa won the gold medal in 3:23.86s and Egypt silver medal in 3:25.43s.<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About Ethiopia<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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