New Taekwondo sensation, Abubakar Isah Adamu and Shola Olowookere, repeated their excellent feat at the last Commonwealth Taekwondo Championships by bagging gold medals in the just concluded Lagos Opens, held at Rowe Park, Lagos.
The tournament, organised by the Lagos State Taekwondo Association and sanctioned by the Nigeria Taekwondo Federation, attracted a total of 195 fighters from across Nigeria, and had in attendance most members of the historic Taekwondo National Team to the 2014 Commonwealth Taekwondo Championships, where Nigeria Taekwondo got its biggest medal haul records since 1987 All Africa Games.
It could be recalled that Adamu and Olowookere, who are both 17 years won the first Gold medals in the Kyreougi [fighting] during the Commonwealth Taekwondo Championships, and have been touted by Taekwondo pundits as the future of the sport in the country.
Sunday Onofe, who narrowly missed out on a medal in Edinburgh, won the gold medal in the -87kg Middleweight division, and Chiamaka Onumonu who also narrowly missed out on a medal in Edinburgh defeated her fellow bronze-medal winning commonwealth teammate, Uzoamaka Otuadinma, in a keenly contested final of the +67kg Olympic weight division.
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