Nigeria’s first-ever Olympics medalist, Nojim Maiyegun, has been reported useless at 84.
This was once disclosed overdue Monday through an Austria-based acquaintance of a dead body recognized as Rudolfine Soultan (Funmilayo) on her Fb submit.
The submit learn, “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.”
In a take a look at through our correspondent, on August 29, 2023, Maiyegun, popularly recognized through the monikers — Jimmy, Marketplace Boxer and Omo Oloja; wrote in a Fb submit, with an image of himself and Soultan, “16 years together.”
Soultan, on July 14, 2024, made any other submit on her Fb wall, depicting the condition situation of a dead body.
It learn, “Happy birthday, dear Amin. Unfortunately, we celebrate without Jimmy and not much, because he was admitted to the hospital again today. I always go with the rescue and stay with him for a few more hours.”
Born February 17, 1941, in Lagos Surrounding, Maiyegun turned into Nigeria’s first-ever Olympic medalist then profitable bronze within the males’s sunny middleweight (71kg) section on the 1964 Olympic Video games in Tokyo, Japan.
He additionally gained a bronze medal on the 1966 Commonwealth Video games in Kingston, Jamaica amongst a number of alternative laurels he gained occasion representing Nigeria.
He relocated to Austria in 1971 to proceed his skilled boxing profession. Then again, he had a snip skilled profession between 1971 and 1973 with simplest 16 bouts, profitable 12 together with 10 knockouts and 4 defeats as smartly. In 2012, he perceivable that he had misplaced his eye.