Segun Toriola

Segun Toriola in our words

Is one of the most successful Table Tennis players in Nigeria, he was born on 18th of September 1974 in Ilorin, Kwara State. The gold medalist who featured in four African Table tennis singles championships in 1998, 2002, 2004, 2006 and in doubles championships in the year 1992 and, 1994, he has also participated and in Commonwealth singles and the doubles championship and has made so many achievements.

He is one of the top table tennis players in Africa since the mid- 1990s and has been ranked as the best Nigeria table tennis player.

Seven Olympic Games

Born in Ilorin, Kwara State, on 18 September 1974, Segun Toriola played at seven Olympic Games in a row, from Barcelona 1992 to Rio 2016, one of the longest Olympic careers of any African athlete.

Commonwealth and African champion

When table tennis joined the Commonwealth Games in 2002, Toriola won the first men’s singles gold in Manchester. In Melbourne 2006 he won men’s doubles gold with Monday Merotohun and singles bronze, and in 2014 he helped Nigeria to team bronze. He was African singles champion in 1998, 2002, 2004 and 2006 and won All-Africa Games singles and doubles gold in Algiers in 2007.