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Sports News of Friday, 23 July 2021

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21-year-old girl begins Team Nigeria’s quest for 2020 Tokyo Olympic games but fails to shine

Esther Toko Esther Toko

Esther Toko missed out on an automatic quarterfinal qualification at the ongoing 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games after finishing fifth in the women’s Singles Sculls of the Rowing event.

The 21-year-old Olympics debutants finished at a time of 8:58.49 at the Sea Forest Waterway early on Friday morning, thereby, leaving her to settle for a place in the Repechage as reported by Making of Champions.

This means that the top three participants will advance to the last-8 stage while others will have another chance to fight their way through to the latter stages of the event.

Toko will hit the waterways again on Saturday, July 24 for a chance to avoid crashing out of the competition early.