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Namibian
sprinter Ananias Shikongo has bagged his country's first-ever
Paralympic gold medal by winning the 200m race in the T13 category, for
people with a visual impairment, in Rio.
BBC
Africa Live report continues:
Shikongo,
in a Paralympic record time of 22.44 seconds beat home
favourite Felipe Gomes - who was the champion in London in 2012.
Afterwards
he told the BBC that it was a big achievement for both himself and
his country.
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Ernst van
Dyk (left) took gold and Italy's Alessandro Zanardi (right) won silver AP
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Other African gold medallists in Rio on Thursday included South African hand cyclist Ernst van Dyk, who won the men's time trial.
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