Francisca Ikhiede (born 17 January 1996) is a Nigerian volleyball player who plays in the Nigeria Customs team and the
Nigeria women's national volleyball team.
Life
Ikhiede was born in
Kaduna in 1996. She has played for the Nigeria Customs Service volleyball team.
Ikhiede plays in
Beach volleyball
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"b" team for the
Nigeria women's national volleyball team. At the beginning of 2019 she was in
Yaoundé in Cameroon where she and
Tochukwu Nnourge
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Career
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won the gold medal at the Camtel International Beach Volleyball Championship. They won the final match despite the cheers of the crowd as their opposition was the Cameroon team.
The Nigerian team were runners up when
Kenya qualified for the postponed
2020 Summer Olympics
The , officially the and also known as , was an international multi-sport event held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events that began on 21 July.
Tokyo was selected as the host city during the ...
. Only four African countries have sent teams to the Olympics.
The Kenyan team was
Yvonne Wavinya,
Brackcides Agala,
Phosca Kasisi and
Gaudencia Makokha. The Nigerian national team lost at the
African Continental Cup Finals in Morocco in 2021.
[ The Kenya team of Wavinga and Kasisi beat Tochukwu Nnoruga and Albertina Francis 2-0 while Agala and Makokha beat the other Nigerian pair of Ikhiede and Amarachi Uchechukwu 2–1.][
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References
Nigerian women's volleyball players
1996 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Kaduna
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