The Nigeria Boxing Federation has set a target of six gold medals at the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, as 40 boxers prepare to enter a camping and assessment phase from which the final 10 representatives will be selected.\n<\/p>\n
Vice President of the NBF, Omonlei Imadu, who spoke at the close of the five-day open trials at the Brai Ayonote Boxing Complex, National Stadium, Surulere, Lagos, on Friday, said the federation was determined to make a significant statement in Glasgow.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cOur target is 10 medals, six gold, while others can come in silver and bronze colours. We are truly determined to make this a reality in Glasgow,\u201d Imadu said.\n<\/p>\n
He added that the camping phase would be critical to shaping the final squad, saying, \u201cWe have moved focus now to the camping phase. Our aim is to ensure that the boxers are in perfect shape during and after the camping.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 40 boxers heading to camp comprise 20 finalists from the trials \u2014 10 male and 10 female \u2014 as well as 20 additional boxers, some of whom were semi-finalists at the open trials. The five-day trials drew 128 boxers comprising 101 men and 27 women competing across 10 weight categories.\n<\/p>\n
Diaspora boxer Patricia Mbata, the African Games gold medallist based in the United Kingdom, headlined the women\u2019s finalists, while Kenneth Anigboro claimed the top spot in the men\u2019s 90kg class. Other female finalists are Udoette Happiness (51kg), Gafar Fathia (51kg), Ajishola Kadijat (57kg), Gbadamosi Aishat (57kg), Sodipe Damilola (65kg), Ismail Abibat (65kg), Blessing Orakwe (70kg), James Queen (+70kg) and Odoka Celestina (+70kg). <\/p>\n
The male finalists are Ogunremi Michael (55kg), Habeeb Qazeem (55kg), Abdulwahab Abdulrahmon (65kg), Saliu Ridwan (65kg), Folly Hassan (70kg), Nwoha Precious (70kg), Daniel Joshua (80kg), Sharafadeen Fawas (80kg), Anigboro Kenneth (90kg) and Abiodun Adesoji (90kg).<\/p>\n
Director General of the National Sports Commission, Bukola Olopade, who was present at the trials, praised the NBF for the conduct of the event and expressed excitement at the quality on display.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are doing everything possible to ensure that Nigeria have a successful outing at the Games, and the prospects in boxing truly excite me,\u201d he said.\n<\/p>\n
Nigeria will be hoping to improve on its 2022 Birmingham outing, where nine fighters led by captain Abdul-Afeez Osoba returned home with four medals \u2014 one silver through Elizabeth Oshoba and three bronzes courtesy of Cynthia Ogunsemilore, Jacinta Umunnakwe and Ifeanyi Onyekwere.\n<\/p>\n
The 2026 Commonwealth Games are scheduled for July 24 to August 1 at the SEC Centre in Glasgow, where boxing will feature across 14 events \u2014 seven men\u2019s and seven women\u2019s categories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Nigeria Boxing Federation has set a target of six gold medals at the 2026 Commonwealth Games in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":531510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[263937,64,63,802,259532,16742,259535,263938,259536,259538,231003,263939,263940,85],"class_list":["post-531509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-2026-commonwealth-games","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-trials","tag-commonwealth-games","tag-glasgow-2026","tag-kenneth-anigboro","tag-national-sports-commission","tag-nigeria-boxing-federation","tag-nigerian-boxers","tag-omonlei-imadu","tag-patricia-mbata","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}