Faith Obazuaye
Nigerian para table tennis player
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Faith Obazuaye (born 4 March 1989) is a Nigerian table tennis player.[1] She competed for Nigeria at local and international table tennis competitions. Obazuaye participated in the para table tennis competition at the 2018 Commonwealth Games representing Nigeria.[3][4]
4 March 1989
| Personal information | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Nationality | Nigerian | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | Faith Obazuaye 4 March 1989 Benin City Edo State, Nigeria | |||||||||||||||||
| Height | 165 cm (5 ft 5 in)[1] | |||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 59 kg (130 lb)[1] | |||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Nigeria.[2] | |||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Table Tennis | |||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Sunday Odebode | |||||||||||||||||
| Achievements and titles | ||||||||||||||||||
| Highest world ranking | 5 | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Table tennis
Obazuaye is a Nigerian class 10 table tennis player, she took part in the Women's Class 10 at the 2018 Commonwealth Games Para Table Tennis Championships in Gold Coast, Australia where she won silver medal.[5][6][7] Obazuaye is the only Nigerian female to qualified for the 2020 Summer Paralympics after her results at the 2019 ITTF African Para Championships.[8][9][10]
Personal
Faith was born as Faith Oba-zuaye on 4 March 1989 in Benin City the capital of Edo State, Nigeria.[1][11]
Achievements
2018 Commonwealth Games
| Semifinals | Gold medal match | ||||||||||||||||
 Melissa Tapper (AUS)
| 6 | 11 | 11 | 11 | |||||||||||||
| Andrea McDonnell (AUS)
| 11 | 3 | 4 | 1 | |||||||||||||
| Melissa Tapper (AUS)
| 7 | 11 | 11 | 11 | |||||||||||||
 Faith Obazuaye (NGR)
| 11 | 2 | 6 | 3 | |||||||||||||
 Felicity Pickard (ENG)
| 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||||||||||||
| Faith Obazuaye (NGR)
| 11 | 11 | 11 | Bronze medal match | |||||||||||||
| Andrea McDonnell (AUS)
| 11 | 11 | 11 | ||||||||||||||
| Felicity Pickard (ENG)
| 2 | 6 | 3 | ||||||||||||||