Nigeria’s sole representative at the 2023 African Taekwondo Championships, Elizabeth Anyanacho did not return home empty as she settled for silver medal in the women’s -67kg held in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire.
Apart from the silver medal, the 2022 bronze medallist also earned valuable world ranking points for her efforts at the two-day tournament attended by majority of the top African athletes aiming for shore up their ranking points ahead of the Olympic Qualifiers taking place next year in Dakar, Senegal.
The 24-year-old, one of the beneficiaries of International Olympic Committee (IOC) Scholarship at the Taekwondo Competence Center (TCC), Friedrichshafen in Germany as one of the top seeds, started her campaign from the quarterfinal stage where she was pitched against Mali’s Iman Kanoute.