Nigeria Table Tennis Federation Clinches Bronze Medal

Nigeria Table Tennis Federation has clinched the third position at the just concluded African Junior Table Tennis Championship at Congo Brazzaville as the team will arrive the country on Monday.

The Secretary General of the Nigeria Table Tennis Federation, Segun Oguntade, who confirmed this report in a telephone conversation with Sportsweight.blogspot.com, said Nigeria's representative in the tournament secured One Gold, Three Silver and Six Bronze medals.

According to him, Egypt that has a virile developmental table tennis programme emerged the winner with Seven Gold, One Silver and Eight Bronze as Tunisia settled for the second poition with Three Gold, Two Silver and One Bronze medals, in a competition which had seventeen countries in attendance.

Oguntade, said the table tennis players who featured in the event were rookies who did have experience of International tournaments but the Federation considered it necessary to expose them to competitive events and also help them to build confidence to play established ping pongers especially the Egyptians players.

Oguntade, said the Nigerian team lost to Egypt in the semi final to pick te tird position, adding that the duo of Ojo Onaolapo and Janet Offiong were at their best as they helped the nigeria team to reach semi final.