It is only three days to the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Nigerians are looking forward to performing better than the last outing in London where no medals were won.WuzupNaija profiles some of the members of the Team Nigeria to the Rio Games that Nigeria are hoping would win medals at the games.

1. Blessing Okagbare is arguably the most popular individual athlete from Nigeria that would be competing in the Rio Olympics apart from the Team Nigeria captain, Mikel Obi. Okagbare is a Nigerian track and field athlete who specialises in long jumping and short sprints. She is an Olympic and World Championships medalist in the long jump, and a world medallist in the 200 metres. She would be competing in the Women’s long jump, 100m 200m and 4x100m relay.

Margaret Bamgbose coming to the Olympic for the first time with the Team Nigeria

2. Margaret Bamgbose is a 19-year-old quarter miler who would be wearing Nigeria’s colours at the Rio Olympics. She would be representing the country in the Athletics Women’s 400m dash and the Athletics Women’s 4 x 400m Relay. Bamgbose, who graduated from University of Notre Dame with a degree in Information Technology Management from the university’s Mendoza College of Business was the 2015 ACC Indoor 400 Meter Champion. She qualified for the Rio Olympics by placing third at the 2016 Nigeria Championships behind Patience George and Omolara Omotoso.

3. Mariam Usman is a Nigerian weightlifter. She would be competing in the +75 kg category. The 25-year-old won the overall silver at the 2007 All-Africa Games, with a total of 248 kg. She would be looking to up the ante at Rio.

4. Tosin Oke is a Nigerian triple jumper. The 35-year-old with dual nationality initially competed for Great Britain. He set the current UK junior indoor record. He was the 1999 European Athletics Junior Championships Champion, and came 5th at the 2002 Commonwealth Games. After multiple indoor and outdoor UK titles, he later switched to compete for Nigeria. Since competing for Nigeria he has won back-to-back African Championships in Athletics titles and the Commonwealth Games championship and is the current All-Africa Games Champion. At the 2012 Summer Olympics Oke finished seventh in the triple jump final, the best Nigerian result of the Games. He would be looking to make that a medal this time.

5. Miles Ukaoma is a US-born Nigerian hurdler. He competed in the 400 metres hurdles event at the 2015 World Championships in Beijing narrowly missing the semifinals. His personal best in the 400 metres hurdles is 48.84 seconds set in Warri in 2015. The 24-year-old was among the Nigerian relay team that got the silver medal at the 2014 African Championships held in Porto Novo, Benin republic.

6. Nigerian men’s football team has the hope of many fans to bring home a medal. One reason is that the predecessors of the Dream Team IV, broke the record in 1996 to become the first African team to win the Olympic team, beating the game’s big names including, Brazil and Argentina to win the gold. Subsequent dream teams have not been able to repeat the feat, but they have not performed too badly. This year’s team comprises the overall team Nigeria captain, Mikel Obi, Imoh Ezekiel, Aminu Umar, Umar Sadiq, Shehu Abdullahi, Oghenekaro Etebo, Junior Ajayi, Kingsley Madu, Azubuike Okechukwu, Daniel Akpeyi.