Nigerian wrestler Esther Kolawole (OLY) has claimed a bronze medal on the 2024 U23 World Wrestling Championship in Albania. Competing within the ladies’s 62kg class, Kolawole defeated Estonia’s Viktoria Vesso 10-0 to safe the medal.
Kolawole dismissed any notion that the bronze was a comfort for her efficiency on the Paris 2024 Olympics, the place she didn’t win a medal.
“I really feel nice profitable this bronze medal as a result of I used to be the one Nigerian athlete on the championship,” Kolawole stated. “It’s not a compensational medal; I actually labored laborious for it. The medal is the results of my preparation by means of the Olympic coaching program, and even after the Olympics, the federation saved pushing me.”
Kolawole acknowledged that her coach, Purity Akuh, was not happy together with her efficiency in Albania, believing she might have received gold.
“My coach wasn’t pleased; he felt I might have executed higher. I really feel like I disenchanted him, particularly in any case the hassle he put into my coaching. However I’m grateful to God, and I’ve promised myself to make him proud sooner or later,” she added per ACL.
Trying forward, the African Video games champion introduced her participation within the Governor Douye Diri Wrestling Championship in Bayelsa State this November.
“I’ll hold coaching for the subsequent season. My focus is on the 2025 African Championships in Morocco, the Rating Collection, and the World Wrestling Championships,” Kolawole stated, expressing her willpower to realize extra success for Nigeria.