Joy Eze fancies her chances in women’s 71kg weightlifting today

Nigeria’s second representative in the weightlifting event, Joy Ogbonne Eze, will have her Olympics moment of glory today at the South Paris Arena 6 inside the Paris Expo Complex in the women’s 71kg category.

Eze dazzled other weightlifters in her weight class at just 15 years to win the African Games Gold medal in 2019 in Morocco, and at 20 years she has become twice African champion, making her debut at the Olympic Games in Paris.
She got the opportunity to represent Nigeria in the Paris 2024 Olympics after getting the needed ranking points to finish among the top 11 weightlifters in the world and the young athlete is waiting to explode in Paris.

Eze will slug it out with 21-year-old junior world record holder in both the Snatch (115kg lift) and Clean & Jerk (147kg lift), Olivia Reeves of the United States and current world record holder in Snatch (121kg lift) in the weight class, 23-year-old Angie Palacious Dajomes of Ecuador.

Others in the women’s 71kg are Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games bronze medallist in the women’s 64kg, Huei Chen Wen (Chinese Taipei), Siuzanna Valodzka (Individual Neutral Athletes, AIN), Elena Loredana Toma (Romania), Marie Fegue (France), Leivis Mari Sanchez (Colombia), Neama Said (Egypt), Amanda Da Costa Schott (Brazil), and Jacqueline Nichele (Australia).

Eze in an interview with NWF Media said she knows what is at stake, adding that she’s pumped up to put her all to ensure Nigeria comes top in the event today.

“I am so pleased to have qualified for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games and having satisfied a personal wish, I am eager to do my best to ensure that I put my very best to work towards getting a medal,” Eze told NWF Media.

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