NSC Appoints Segun Toriola As Captian Of Team Nigeria.

   

Former African number one table tennis player, Segun Toriola, has been named as Team Nigeria’s captain to the Galasgos 2014 Commonwealth Games, as Nigeria tackles Kenya, India in table tennis

 

Toriola, who is making her fourth appearance at the games having made his first appearance at the 2002 Manchester Games, will be in charge of the 127-man contingent representing at the 11-day multi-sports tournament.

 

The Director General, National Sports Commission (NSC), Gbenga Elegbeye made the announcement at the Games’ Village in Glasgow,

 

According to him, Toriola was picked being the most experienced athlete in the team coupled with dedication and patriotism to the country.

 

In a bid to acknowledge the pedigree of Toriola among the Commonwealth nations, the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) has lauded the former Africa champion alongside New Zealand’s Lee Chunli, after they both won the first gold medals at the games during the maiden outing of table tennis at the Commonwealth games in Manchester 2002.

 

ITTF Publication Director, Ian Marshall, Toriola caused major upsets at the Manchester Games when he accounted for Canada’s Johnny Huang loss to clinch gold in the men’s singles, while Lee Chunli using her traditional Asian pen-hold grip style of play to great effect, attacked like fury to beat Singapore’s Lee Jiawei.