Elizabeth Anyanacho dreaming about gold medal in Paris. GETTY IMAGES

Nigerian Taekwondo star Elizabeth Anyanacho booked her Paris ticket through the African Qualifiers, and now she dreams about the Olympic gold, DW reports.

“My dream is to get the gold medal. Everybody are going to get the gold medal, right?” says Anyanacho.

She is training at the Taekwondo Competence Center in Friedrichshafen, Germany on the IOC training scholarship. Her coach Markus Kohlöffel is sure that she can be the top ranked athlete in Paris.

Elizabeth Anyanacho (blue) against Türkiye’s Nur Tatar in the first round og the Tokyo 2020. GETTY IMAGES
Elizabeth Anyanacho (blue) against Türkiye’s Nur Tatar in the first round og the Tokyo 2020. GETTY IMAGES

"She had great development since she arrived in the training centre. She is fast learning and very intelegent about the tactics and strategy", says Kohlöffel.

She says that she has learnt from Tokyo 2020 mistakes. Anyanacho lost to Türkiye’s Nur Tatar in the first round.

“The stage was big for me. I was not really used to it,” adds the athlete. 

Chika Chukwumerije (blue) is the last Nigerian taekwondo athlete to win the a medal in the Olympic Games. GETTY IMAGES
Chika Chukwumerije (blue) is the last Nigerian taekwondo athlete to win the a medal in the Olympic Games. GETTY IMAGES

Being more experienced will help to get better results in Paris. The 25-year-old athlete won a gold medal at the G1 tournament in Luxembourg in June as her last pre-Olympic warm-up before the Olympic Games She also won a gold medal at the African Games earlier this year.

“Putting all my experiences together, I have a good feeling that I’m going to get a very positive result in Paris,”  she told Nigerian PUNCH Sports Extra.