Champions of Paralympics Games have become: Leilia Adzhametova in the women’s 100 metres run, Roman Polianskyi in rowing, Oleksii Fedyn in the 100 metres brace swimming, Denys Dubrov in the 200 metres swimming and Natalia Kosmina in table tennis.
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Oliver James, second right, with his Mixed Coxed Four team at the Rio Paralympic Games 2016. Nigeria’s Paralympians have already outshone their Olympic counterparts.
Buoyed by her astounding success, the Nigerian requested for the weights to be set at 145kg outside of competition but was unable to repeat her record-breaking feat for a fourth time.
Ejike’s gold added to Paul Kehinde, who also broke a world record by lifting 220kg when winning the 65kg men’s category, and Roland Ezuruike, who had triumphed on Friday and set a new Paralympic record in the 54kg category.
Team Nigeria’s Captain Lucy Ejike, did not only win a gold medal but did so in an astonishing manner, shattering the Paralympic and World Record three successive times to dominate the women’s -61kg event in Powerlifting.
Iranian athletes have so far clinched four medals – one gold and three silvers – putting the Islamic Republic in the 32nd slot of the medal count table.
Jody Cundy, Jon-Allan Butterworth and Louis Rolfe’s eighth gold in the velodrome came after an earlier gold from Lora Turnham and Corrine Hall who won the women’s tandem B 3km pursuit.
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Elsewhere on the day, Alison Patrick with her guide Hazel Smith, won a silver in the PT5 para-triathlon and Melissa Reid, together with guide Nicole Walters, took bronze in the same event.
