Bobsled in Nigeria

Bobsled in Nigeria

A winter sport with Nigerian heart

Bobsledding in other words called Bobsleigh is an Olympic winter sport that originated in Switzerland in the late 1800s. Some others referred to the game as Bob or King’s Class; it’s a kind of sport that involves one (monobob), two or four teammates at a time.

The winter sport is a kind of game where the teams make timed runs down narrow, banked, twisting, iced tracks in a gravity-powered land vehicle with a smooth body supported by some smooth, narrow, longitudinal runners which move by sliding across a surface.

The history of bobsledding in Nigeria emerged from three women namely: Seun Adigun, Ngozi Onwumere and Akuoma Omeoga who have put the country into history by representing at the Winter Olympics as Africa’s first bobsled team.

The team was established in 2016 by Adigun Seun who represented Nigeria in the 2012 Olympics. One of the teammates Onwumere grappled a Silver and Gold medal at the 2015 African Games in Republic of the Congo in the 200m and 4x100m relay. They kicked off with their activities unanimously at the snow-less grounds of Houston, Texas in a wooden sledge which they referred to as The Maeflower.