Izuchukwu OkosiOlarinoye Adenike Adijat on Thursday night became Nigeria’s second gold medallist at the ongoing IWF World Weightlifting Championship in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, reports Prime Business Africa.
The 2019 Africa Games two-time gold medals winner thus broke a 20 years Nigerian history in the competition having won a silver and two bronze medals already in the IWF Championship. Adijat’s medals all came in the 55kg women category.
With the gold, Adenike has become second Nigerian to clinch gold medal at the Commonwealth championship after Stella Kingsley set the pace on Wednesday winning a gold medal in the 49kg women category.
Nigeria thus far have five medals – 2 gold, 1 silver and 2 bronze – in the competition.
Adenike joins her compatriot, Stella Kingsley among the two Nigerian lifters who have qualified for the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Bermignham, England.
The 2021 IWF Championship also serves as qualifiers for the 2022 Commonwealth Games.
Izuchukwu Okosi is a Nigerian sports and entertainment journalist with two decades of experience in the media industry having begun his media journey in 2002 as an intern at Mundial Sports International (MSI) and Africa Independent Television (AIT), owners of Daar Communications Plc.
In October 2004, Okosi joined Complete Communications Limited, publishers of Complete Sports newspaper and Complete Football magazine as a reporter and later script writer for the Complete Sports studio.
He worked there for 13 years until October 2017.
Okosi also worked various times as Correspondent, Content creator and Editor at Sports Market International Magazine, Opera News, All Nigeria Soccer Media and Iconic Media Watch.
He also undertook freelance writing gigs for some local and international organizations.
Okosi is a member of the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN), Association of Movie Producers (AMP), Association of Voiceover Artistes of Nigeria (AVOA), Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN) and Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ).
He has been part of cast in some Nollywood movies and radio dramas including Blood Money 2, Scores To Settle, Dead End 2, Another Campus Tale and Battle Line.
Aside mainstream media and the entertainment industry, he has interests in scouting/unearthing of talents in the sports and creative sectors, exports business and property development.
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