Nigeria's
female weightlifter, Amalaha Chika, has set a new Commonwealth Games
records as she won the nation's first ever Gold medal in the ongoing
2014 Glasgow Commonwealth games in the women's 53 kilogramme in the
weightlifing event decided today at the Clyde auditorium.
She erased the record held by a Nigerian weightlifter, Augustina
Nwokolo, who was seventeen year old when she won the Women's 48
kilogramme in Delhi 2010 Commonwealth Games.
Chika, a sixteen year old athletes,
who left Toua Dika of Papua N Guinea to settle for a Silver medal
after a great tussle, recorded eighty- five points in snatch and one
hundred and ninety- six points in Clean and Jerk, to top
group A with the total of one hundred and ninety- six points.
Speaking on Chika's feat, Head Coach of Nigeria Weightlifting
Federation, Emmanuel Oshomal, said the success recorded by his athletes
was a testimony that the Federation have a compactive training
programmes which is geared at producing future chamopions, adding that
the victory is a evidence that Nigerian weightlifters are very strong
because it took them barely two months to prepare them for the Games.
He said the federation technical crew subjected the athletes to series
of rigorous training programme knowing that countries like India,
Australia, England and Papua N Guinea would a threat to their quest of
winning medals at the Games,stressing that they were not distraction
despite shortage of funds to support their training programmes.
Oshomal, who promised to win more gold
medals,said the build up to the Galsgow 2014 Commonwealth Games started
during last year's Commonwealth Games qualifier in Malaysia.
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