Nigeria at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Nigeria at the 1992 Summer Olympics
IOC code	NGR
NOC	Nigeria Olympic Committee
Website	www.nigeriaolympiccommittee.org
in Barcelona
Competitors	55 (32 men and 23 women) in 8 sports
Medals Ranked 38th	Gold 0 Silver 3 Bronze 1 Total 4
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Nigeria competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Silver	David Izonritei	Boxing	Heavyweight	8 August
Silver	Olapade Adeniken Davidson Ezinwa Osmond Ezinwa Chidi Imoh Oluyemi Kayode	Athletics	Men's 4 × 100 metres relay	8 August
Silver	Richard Igbineghu	Boxing	Super heavyweight	9 August
Bronze	Faith Idehen Mary Onyali Christy Opara-Thompson Beatrice Utondu	Athletics	Women's 4 × 100 metres relay	8 August

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games. ^[1]

Sport	Men	Women	Total
Athletics	10	4	14
Boxing	9	–	9
Handball	0	16	16
Judo	2	0	2
Swimming	1	1	2
Table tennis	4	2	6
Weightlifting	1	–	1
Wrestling	5	–	5
Total	32	23	55

Athletics

Main article: Athletics at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Men

Track and road events

Athlete	Event	Heats		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Olapade Adeniken	100 metres	10.36	8 Q	10.22	6 Q	10.28	7 Q	10.12	6
Davidson Ezinwa		10.31	7 Q	10.38	16 Q	10.23	6 Q	10.26	8
Chidi Imoh		10.47	15 Q	10.21	5 Q	10.30	9	Did not advance
Olapade Adeniken	200 metres	20.79	8 Q	20.47	8 Q	20.39	7 Q	20.50	5
Oluyemi Kayode		20.42	2 Q	20.22	3 Q	20.23	5 Q	20.67	7
Sunday Bada	400 metres	45.38	5 Q	45.34	12 Q	45.36	10	Did not advance
Innocent Egbunike		46.51	35	Did not advance
Oluyemi Kayode Chidi Imoh Olapade Adeniken Davidson Ezinwa Osmond Ezinwa (heats only)	4 × 100 metres relay	38.98	3 Q	—	38.21	2 Q	37.98
Udeme Ekpenyong Emmanuel Okoli Hassan Bosso Sunday Bada	4 × 400 metres relay	3:00.39	4 q	—	3:01.71	5

Women

Track and road events

Athlete	Event	Heats		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Mary Onyali	100 metres	11.37	8 Q	11.28	8 Q	11.30	8 Q	11.15	7
Christy Opara-Thompson		11.39	9 Q	11.42	12 Q	11.47	13	Did not advance
Beatrice Utondu		11.30	6 Q	11.31	9 Q	11.53	14	Did not advance
Mary Onyali	200 metres	23.06	9 Q	22.60	11 Q	22.60	9	Did not advance
Beatrice Utondu Faith Idehen Christy Opara-Thompson Mary Onyali	4 × 100 metres relay	42.39	2 Q	—	42.81

Boxing

Main article: Boxing at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Moses Malagu	Flyweight	Buttimer  (IRL) W 12–8	González  (CUB) L RSC R2	Did not advance
Mohammed Sabo	Bantamweight	Ciba  (POL) W RSC R3	Suwanyod  (THA) W 16–7	McCullough  (IRL) L 13–31	Did not advance
Moses Odion	Lightweight	Petrovics  (HUN) W 18–8	De La Hoya  (USA) L 4–16	Did not advance
Moses James	Light welterweight	Chavez  (PHI) L 6–12	Did not advance
Tajudeen Sabitu	Welterweight	Vaștag  (ROU) L 0–9	Did not advance
David Defiagbon	Light middleweight	Márquez  (USA) L 7–8	Did not advance
Jacklord Jacobs	Light heavyweight	Bye	Zaulychnyi  (EUN) L 8–16	Did not advance
David Izonritei	Heavyweight	Bye	Shiri  (IRI) W RSC R3	Johnson  (CAN) W 9–5	Tua  (NZL) W 12–7	Savón  (CUB) L 1–14
Richard Igbineghu	Super heavyweight	Bye	Al-Hassan (GHA) W w/o	Juškevičius  (LTU) W KO	Rusinov  (BUL) W 9–7	Balado  (CUB) L 2–13

Handball

Main article: Handball at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Summary

Key:

• ET: After extra time
• P – Match decided by penalty-shootout.

Team	Event	Group stage						Semifinal	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Nigeria women's	Women's tournament	Germany L 17–32	Unified Team L 18–26	United States L 21–23	—	4	—	Spain L 17–26	8

Women's tournament

Team roster

• Agustina Nkechi Abi
• Angela Ajodo
• Barbara Diribe
• Bridget Yamala Egwolosan
• Chiaka Lauretta Ihebom
• Eunice Idausa
• Immaculate Nwaogu
• Justina Akpulo
• Justina Anyiam
• Mary Ihedioha
• Mary Nwachukwu
• Mary Soronadi
• Ngozi Opara
• Auta Olivia Sana
• Uzoma Azuka
• Victoria Umunna

Group play

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Unified Team	3	3	0	0	77	56	+21	6	Semifinals
2	Germany	3	2	0	1	86	61	+25	4
3	United States	3	1	0	2	55	76	−21	2	Fifth place game
4	Nigeria	3	0	0	3	56	81	−25	0	Seventh place game

Source: ^{[ citation needed ]}

30 July 1992 10:00	Germany	32–17	Nigeria	Palau d'Esports de Granollers, Granollers Referees: Øie, Høgsnes (NOR)
	Mühlner 9	(14–9)	Sana 7

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1 August 1992 10:00	Nigeria	18–26	Unified Team	Palau d'Esports de Granollers, Granollers Referees: Goto, Shimada (JPN)
	Sana 8	(5–15)	Horb, Morskova 5

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3 August 1992 10:00	United States	23–21	Nigeria	Palau d'Esports de Granollers, Granollers Referees: Christensen, Jørgensen (DEN)
	Jones 8	(12–9)	Abi 10

Seventh place game

7 August 1992 09:00	Spain	26–17	Nigeria	Palau d'Esports de Granollers, Granollers Referees: Goto, Shimada (JPN)
	Gómez 7	(14–5)	Abi, Anyiam 4

Judo

Main article: Judo at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage			Final
							Round 1	Round 2	Round 3
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Majemite Omagbaluwaje	71 kg	Sulli  (ITA) L	Did not advance
Suleman Musa	78 kg	Bye	Adolfsson  (SWE) L	Did not advance			Dorjbat  (MGL) L	Did not advance

Swimming

Main article: Swimming at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Heats		Final A/B
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Musa Bakare	50 metre freestyle	24.13	41	Did not advance
	100 metre butterfly	58.36	52	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Heats		Final A/B
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Joshua Ikhaghomi	50 metre freestyle	27.53	39	Did not advance
	100 metre freestyle	1:00.72	42	Did not advance

Table tennis

Main article: Table tennis at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Group Stage				Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Yomi Bankole	Singles	Matsushita  (JPN) L 0–2	Wang  (CHN) L 0–2	Hamdan  (KSA) W 2–1	3	Did not advance
Atanda Musa		Kalinić  (IOP) L 0–2	Gatien  (FRA) L 0–2	Bower  (NZL) W 2–0	3	Did not advance
Sule Olaleye		Lupulesku  (IOP) L 1–2	Ri  (PRK) L 1–2	El-Mahjoub  (LBA) W 2–0	3	Did not advance
Yomi Bankole Segun Toriola	Doubles	Cooke / Prean  (GBR) L 0–2	Yu / Ma  (CHN) L 1–2	Arado / Roque  (CUB) W 2–0	3	Did not advance
Sule Olaleye Atanda Musa		Grubba / Kucharski  (POL) L 0–2	Éloi / Gatien  (FRA) L 0–2	Jackson / Bower  (NZL) W 2–0	3	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Group Stage				Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Bose Kaffo	Singles	Gergelcheva  (BUL) L 0–2	Vriesekoop  (NED) L 0–2	Doti  (BRA) W 2–1	3	Did not advance
Abiola Odumosu		Yamashita  (JPN) L 0–2	Timina  (EUN) L 0–2	González  (PER) L 0–2	4	Did not advance
Abiola Odumosu Bose Kaffo	Doubles	Wi / Kim (PRK) L 0–2	Palina / Timina  (EUN) L 0–2	Godes / Gauchia  (ESP) W 2–0	3	Did not advance

Weightlifting

Main article: Weightlifting at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Athlete	Event	Snatch		Clean & jerk		Total	Rank
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Gilbert Ojadi Aduche	+110 kg	180.0	4	DNF

Wrestling

Main article: Wrestling at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Freestyle

Athlete	Event	Group Stage						Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Rank
Amos Ojo	48 kg	Petryshen  (CAN) L 4–7	Khosbayar  (MGL) L Fall	Did not advance			8	Did not advance
Joe Oziti	52 kg	Ri  (PRK) L 0–15	Yordanov  (BUL) L Fall	Did not advance			7	Did not advance
Tebe Dorgu	57 kg	Nagy  (HUN) L Fall	Scheibe  (GER) L Fall	Did not advance			9	Did not advance
Ibo Oziti	68 kg	Özbaş  (TUR) L 2–4	McNeil  (GBR) W 4–0	Saunders  (USA) L Fall	Did not advance		6	Did not advance
Enekpedekumoh Okporu	82 kg	Dvorák  (HUN) L 0–2	Sofiadi  (BUL) L 1–4	Did not advance			8	Did not advance

See also

• Nigeria at the 1990 Commonwealth Games
• Nigeria at the 1994 Commonwealth Games

References

1. Nigeria at the 1992 Summer Olympics

• Official Olympic Reports
• International Olympic Committee results database
• sports-reference