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Rio Paralympic: Nigeria’s Onye wins gold in women’s shot put f40 final

The Paralympic Games seem to be a hit with locals.

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Should Cox win a medal at the velodrome she will become the first Briton since Isabel Barr in 1988 to win Paralympic medals in two sports at the same games. “I was pretty ecstatic”. I saw the finish line, knew I’d won with about 20m to go and lots of things went through my head about how hard I’ve had it for 40 years.

According to Xinhua, Pan registered a time of 27.35 seconds to surpass the previous world record of 27.67 set by the eleven-time Paralympic gold medalist David Roberts of the Great Britain at the 2008 Beijing Games.

Canada’s Brent Lakatos won the wheelchair 100 metres a night earlier.

“There’s 24 hours in every day, and you have to make the majority”, she said in the post-race interview.

Stilwell was paralyzed at the age of 17 when she was riding piggyback with a friend and fell backwards, hitting her neck on a stair. “By the time Tokyo 2020 comes along I might not even be in a position to take part in one event”.

Cox is scheduled to return to the athletics track in the T36-38 4x100m relay and T38 400m, while she is also entered in cycling’s road race on the penultimate day of the Games.

The 38-year-old wheelchair user, who has polio, is representing her country for the fifth time at the Paralympics and dominated the women’s -61kg power-lifting event. Daniel, who has a bilateral radial club hands, is also a strong able-bodied athlete and competes in cross-country for the University of Calgary’s track team.

Jamaica takes second with three golds at a gold per 1.07 million, while New Zealand lags behind in third – our four golds ensuring we have a gold per 0.88 million people. The 41-year-old from Powell River, B.C., raced to a personal-record time of 1:09.583 – 2.905 seconds behind victor Zhangyu Li of China. “It has been my record for four years, I didn’t think I would go that fast again”, said Xu, who has now eight Paralympic gold medals.

“Ever since I was little, I wanted to be good at every sport”, Schulz told state broadcaster ARD of his decision to expand his career outside of competitive swimming, where he got his start.

Canada’s coxed four rowing team – Victoria Nolan of Toronto, Meghan Montgomery of Winnipeg, Andrew Todd of Thunder Bay, Ont., and Curtis Halladay of Sudbury, Ont., – secured its spot in Sunday’s final after winning the repechage round.

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Team Nigeria has won its first gold medal from the ongoing 2016 Paralympics in Rio.

Brazil's Daniel Dias the Michael Phelps of the Paralympics