Tokyo 2020: Olympic Games record-breaker Funke Oshonaike thanks all after defeat

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Guardianng July 24, 2021 4:36 p.m.

Tokyo 2020: Olympic Games record-breaker Funke Oshonaike thanks all after defeat

Apart from Oshonaike, Team Nigeria’s Olajide Omotayo, currently ranked 92nd in the world rankings, also crashed out of the men’s singles table tennis event as the Olympic debutant couldn’t match the brilliance of world number 56 Tiago Apolonia of Portugal, losing 4-0 (11-7, 11-9, 11-6, 11-5).

Photo: AFP …as Edem progresses to next round of table tennis event Nigerian legend, Funke Oshonaike, has expressed her gratitude to Nigerians for their support and prayers after she made a glorious exit from the women’s singles table tennis event of the on-going Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

Olufunke Oshonaike of Team Nigeria in action during her women’s singles preliminary round table tennis match of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium on July 24, 2021 in Tokyo, Japan.

Oshonaike, in Tokyo 2020, becamethe first African woman to play in seven Olympics, as well as the first woman to join the exclusive International Table Tennis Federation ‘Club of 7’ of players to have competed at seven Olympic Games..

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