Saturday, September 17, 2016
Rio 2016 Paralympics: Nigeria's brilliant show with 8 gold medals
After the poor performance of Nigeria's team at the 2016 Rio Olympics. Nigeria's Paralympic team on the other hand has so far had a brilliant show at the 2016 Rio Paralympics. So far, team Nigeria sits at the 12th position on the medals table with 8 gold medals, 2 silver medals and 2 bronze medals.
Nigeria's 8th gold medal came on Wednesday the 14th of September, 2016 from the power-lifter Josephine Orji, when she broke the world record of the women’s -+86kg power-lifting event at the ongoing 2016 Paralympics Games in Rio, Brazil. She had a lift of 154kg to win the gold medal.
Nigeria's 8th gold medal came on Wednesday the 14th of September, 2016 from the power-lifter Josephine Orji, when she broke the world record of the women’s -+86kg power-lifting event at the ongoing 2016 Paralympics Games in Rio, Brazil. She had a lift of 154kg to win the gold medal.
Flora Ugwunwa also won the women’s javelin throw – F53/54 event with a throw of 20.25m, she also set a new world record beating Tunisia’s
Hania Aidi and South Africa’s Ntombizanele Situ to second and third
places respectively. Read more to see medal table...
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