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| Handout image supplied by OIS/IOC showing Nigeria’s Lauritta Onye, Gold Medal winner in the Women’s Shot Put – F40 Final in the Olympic Stadium, during the Paralympic Games, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on September 11, 2016. Photo by Thomas Lovelock for OIS/IOC via AFP. |
Nigeria yesterday
continued its impressive form at the on-going Rio 2016 Paralympic Games when it
won two more gold medals and a bronze to bring the country’s tally to five
gold, two silver and a bronze medal.
The
Guardian Nigeria report continues:
Powerlifting
gave the country the previous medals and one of the gold medals yesterday, but
athletics also came to the party with a gold in the shot put event.
Powerlifter,
Ndidi Nwosu, got the country off to a good start on the day when she won gold
at the women 73kg event, while Onye Lauritta won the country’s first gold medal
in athletics when she took the gold in the shot put event with a new world
record.
Her
first throw of 7.83m bettered the former record of 7.72m.
Nigeria
now leads Africa’s medal haul and is ninth on the overall table.
On
Sunday, Lucy Ejike set a new world record when winning the gold medal of the
women’s -61kg.
The
Nigerian lifted 142 kg, which gave her not just the Paralympics record, but
also a new world mark.
Powerlifting has produced seven of the medals won so far by Team Nigeria at games, which ends on September 18.
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