In similar fashion Bose Omolayo broke her own World Record (WR) and set a new one of 138kg to win Nigeria’s sixth gold medal at the ongoing Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.
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Nigeria’s Paralympians are doing their best to make up for the country’s poor showing at the Olympics. Only four days into the Games, the greatest 4,300-plus para-athletes in the world are already almost halfway to surpassing the 2012 London Paralympic total of 251 records broken.
New Zealand leads the medals per capita table at the Rio Paralympics, with the nine medals one edging the nation ahead of Slovenia and Jamaica into first place.
Nigeria’s Olympic team brought back just a single bronze medal from Rio-won by the men’s football team captained by Chelsea midfielder Mikel John Obi-in a disappointing tournament that was a marginal improvement on the London 2012 Olympics, where the country won no medals.
Much of the success has been down to dominance on the powerlifting benches.
It is the first gold Team Nigeria will win in athletics at the competition and the seventh in total.
Innocent Nnamdi on Sunday, also won Bronze in the men’s -72kg class in the Powerlifting event with a lift of 210kg. Cao Ningning won the Gold.
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Ejike achieved her feat in astonishing style as she shattered the Paralymics and World record three successive times to dominate the women’s -61kg event in powerlifting.
