# Nigeria at the 2024 Winter Youth Olympics

Nigeria is scheduled to compete at the 2024 Winter Youth Olympics in Gangwon, South Korea, from January 19 to February 1, 2024. This will be Nigeria's debut appearance at the Winter Youth Olympic Games.
The Nigerian team consisted of six athletes (three per gender) competing in curling. Curlers Roy Daniel and Oluwanimifise Wale-Adeogun were the country's flagbearers during the opening ceremony.

## Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors (per gender) participating at the games per sport/discipline.
| Sport | Men | Women | Total |
| Curling | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| Total | 3 | 3 | 6 |

## Curling

Nigeria qualified a mixed team and mixed doubles pair for a total of six athletes. Nigeria was the first African curling team to qualify for the Winter Youth Olympics, as no African nation was represented in curling at the first three Games.

### Summary

| Team | Event | Group Stage | Group Stage | Group Stage | Group Stage | Group Stage | Group Stage | Group Stage | Group Stage | Quarterfinal | Semifinal | Final / BM | Final / BM |
| Team | Event | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Rank | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Rank |
| Goodnews Charles Oluwanimifise Wale-Adeogun Faitu Danmola Nkoyo Oku | Mixed team | Japan L 1–20 | Turkey L 2–22 | Norway L 0–21 | New Zealand L 1–12 | United States L 0–20 | China L 2–22 | Sweden L 0–16 | 8 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | 16 |
| Oluwatomisin Akinsanya Roy Daniel | Mixed doubles | Hungary L 3–13 | Great Britain L 0–18 | Czech Republic L 0–19 | Canada L 0–14 | South Korea L 1–17 | — | 6 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | 24 |

### Mixed team

| Group A | Skip | W | L | W–L | PF | PA | EW | EL | BE | SE | DSC |
| China | Li Zetai | 6 | 1 | 1–0 | 65 | 25 | 28 | 17 | 0 | 12 | 59.04 |
| United States | Kenna Ponzio | 6 | 1 | 0–1 | 68 | 26 | 31 | 16 | 1 | 15 | 51.38 |
| Japan | Kaito Fujii | 5 | 2 | 1–0 | 64 | 26 | 27 | 17 | 2 | 11 | 39.53 |
| Sweden | Vilmer Nygren | 5 | 2 | 0–1 | 55 | 42 | 27 | 19 | 5 | 10 | 58.05 |
| Norway | Alexander Johansen | 3 | 4 | – | 49 | 39 | 25 | 19 | 2 | 11 | 65.33 |
| Turkey | Muhammed Taha Zenit | 2 | 5 | – | 41 | 40 | 16 | 26 | 5 | 5 | 82.17 |
| New Zealand | Jed Nevill | 1 | 6 | – | 27 | 44 | 18 | 23 | 3 | 6 | 86.52 |
| Nigeria | Goodnews Charles | 0 | 7 | – | 6 | 133 | 4 | 39 | 1 | 0 | 199.60 |

#### Draw 1

Saturday, January 20, 10:00
| Sheet B | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Japan (Fujii) | 5 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 3 | X | X | 20 |
| Nigeria (Charles) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | X | X | 1 |

#### Draw 2

Saturday, January 20, 18:00
| Sheet A | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Nigeria (Charles) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | X | X | 2 |
| Turkey (Zenit) | 8 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 0 | X | X | 22 |

#### Draw 3

Sunday, January 21, 14:00
| Sheet C | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Nigeria (Charles) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | X | X | 0 |
| Norway (Johansen) | 2 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 2 | X | X | 21 |

#### Draw 4

Monday, January 22, 10:00
| Sheet A | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| New Zealand (Nevill) | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | X | 12 |
| Nigeria (Charles) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | X | 1 |

#### Draw 5

Monday, January 22, 18:00
| Sheet D | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Nigeria (Charles) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | X | X | 0 |
| United States (Ponzio) | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 3 | X | X | 20 |

#### Draw 6

Tuesday, January 23, 14:00
| Sheet B | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Nigeria (Charles) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | X | X | 2 |
| China (Li) | 6 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 6 | 2 | X | X | 22 |

#### Draw 7

Wednesday, January 24, 9:00
| Sheet D | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Sweden (Nygren) | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | X | 16 |
| Nigeria (Charles) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | X | 0 |

### Mixed doubles

| Group A | W | L | W–L | DSC |
| Great Britain | 4 | 1 | 1–0 | 40.06 |
| Czech Republic | 4 | 1 | 0–1 | 42.84 |
| Canada | 3 | 2 | – | 54.69 |
| Hungary | 2 | 3 | 1–0 | 89.06 |
| South Korea | 2 | 3 | 0–1 | 38.09 |
| Nigeria | 0 | 5 | – | 168.42 |

#### Draw 1

Friday, January 26, 18:00
| Sheet D | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Nigeria (Akinsanya / Daniel) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | X | 3 |
| Hungary (Nagy / Kárász) | 4 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | X | 13 |

#### Draw 2

Saturday, January 27, 10:00
| Sheet C | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Great Britain (Soutar / Brewster) | 5 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 2 | X | X | 18 |
| Nigeria (Akinsanya / Daniel) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | X | X | 0 |

#### Draw 7

Sunday, January 28, 18:00
| Sheet A | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Czech Republic (Zelingrová / Bláha) | 1 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 4 | X | X | 19 |
| Nigeria (Akinsanya / Daniel) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | X | X | 0 |

#### Draw 9

Monday, January 29, 14:00
| Sheet A | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Nigeria (Akinsanya / Daniel) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | X | 0 |
| Canada (Locke / Perry) | 6 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | X | 14 |

#### Draw 11

Tuesday, January 30, 10:00
| Sheet B | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| South Korea (Lee / Lee) | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 6 | X | X | 17 |
| Nigeria (Akinsanya / Daniel) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | X | X | 1 |