Nigeria’s first-ever Olympics medalist, Nojim Maiyegun is dead.
This was made known late Monday by an Austria-based ally of the deceased identified as Rudolfine Soultan (Funmilayo) on her Facebook post.
The post read, “My Jimylein (Jimmy) is dead. I can’t say more about this right now because it’s just horrible. By the day after tomorrow, we would have been together for 17 years.”
Maiyegun became Nigeria’s first-ever Olympic medalist after winning bronze in the men’s light middleweight (71kg) category at the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan.
He was born on February 17, 1941.
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