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For the primary time, Nigeria will compete within the biking competitors on the Olympics, due to Ese Lovina Ukpeseraye, the nation’s main feminine bike owner and nationwide sports activities competition champion. Ese certified for the 2024 Summer time Olympics in Paris by excelling in three separate Olympic biking occasions, together with one highway race and two monitor biking competitions.
Ese Ukpeseraye, a 25-year-old monitor bike owner from Delta State, has competed in quite a few competitions, together with the 2021 UCI Monitor Biking World Championships and the 2021 Africa Monitor Biking Championship, the place she gained a number of nationwide titles. She secured her Olympic spot by incomes 250 factors on the nineteenth Confederation of African Biking (CAC) Street Championships in Accra, Ghana, the place she gained the gold medal within the Elite Girls’s Street Race.
The president of the Biking Federation of Nigeria (CFN), Giandomenico Massari, highlighted that Nigeria’s qualification for these three occasions is a noteworthy accomplishment. He defined that the qualification course of for Olympic occasions is extremely aggressive and rigorous, underscoring Ese’s important achievement in securing spots in all three occasions.
“That is the primary time Nigeria will likely be showing in Olympic biking competitors,” Giandomenico said. He additionally expressed confidence in her capability to carry out properly and symbolize Nigeria with delight on the Paris Olympics, wishing her a profitable and easy competitors.
Ese on the opening ceremony
