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Two-time Olympian Atanda Musa poses for a portrait at the Manhattan Table Tennis Club on December 18, in Harlem, New York City....
Atanda Musa is a household name in African table tennis.
Atanda Musa
Nigerian table tennis player (born 1960)
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Born | (1960-02-03) February 3, 1960 (age 64) Nigeria |
Atanda Ganiyu Musa (born 3 February 1960) is a Nigerian table tennis player.
He represented Nigeria at two Summer Olympics in 1988 and 1992, taking part in both the singles and doubles events.[1] He was once ranked 20th in the world at his peak.[2]
In 1982, he won the table tennis singles event at the Commonwealth Table Tennis Championships (in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia), before partnering with Sunday Eboh to take the doubles gold in the same discipline.
Along with Francis Sule, Atanda, again, won the table tennis doubles gold medal at the 1986 Commonwealth Games.[3] He achieved a clean sweep of gold in each of the singles, men's doubles and mixed doubles events representing Nigeria at the 1987 All-Africa Games and then, in 1991, with Bose Kaffo as partner, he won the Commonwealth Games' Mixed Doubles e