Nigeria qualified a team of three athletes in the two-women bobsleigh competition through the quota for continental representation.[7]Seun Adigun was the driver of the sled, while Akuoma Omeoga and Ngozi Onwumere served as breakwomen, only one of which could be in the sled at a time.[1] All three were former track and field athletes,[8] and all were born in the United States.[9] Adigun participated in all four runs, while Omeoga participated in the first two runs, and Onwumere in the last two runs.[10] On 20 February, the first two heats were held, and the Nigerian sled posted times of 52.21 seconds and 52.55 seconds.[11] After the first two heats, they were roughly 3.5 seconds behind the leader.[12] The next day, in the third and fourth runs, their times were 52.31 seconds and 52.53 seconds respectively.[11] Their final time was 3 minutes and 29.60 seconds, which placed them 19th (after one sled from the Olympic Athletes from Russia was disqualified for doping).[13]
Nigeria qualified one female skeleton athlete through the quota for continental representation.[14]Simidele Adeagbo is a Canadian native who spent her childhood in Nigeria.[15] She went to university in the United States at the University of Kentucky, where she was part of the track and field team.[16] She only took up skeleton racing in September 2017.[16] Adeagbo is the first female athlete representing an African country to compete in skeleton, and she was 36 years old at the time of the Pyeongchang Olympics.[17] On 16 February, she posted run times of 54.19 seconds and 54.58 seconds, making her first day combined time 1 minute and 48.77 seconds.[18] The next day, on her third run, she finished in a time of 53.73 seconds, and her fourth run was completed in 54.28 seconds.[19] After four runs, her final time was 3 minutes and 36.78 seconds, which put her in 20th place.[16][20]
