Nigeria has won yet another gold medal at the ongoing 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio, Brazil, through Lauritta Onye in the shot put f40.
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China is on the top of the medal count table with 92 medals (39 golds, 30 silvers, 23 bronzes).
Eventual Silver medallist Egypt’s Fatma Omar had tried to toe the line of the Nigerian, but had to settle for 2nd place with her lift of 140kg.
Sophie Pascoe has won her second gold of the Rio Paralympics after defending her title in the 200m individual medley SM10 final today.
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.
Nigeria is also competing in para-athletics, which has yielded one gold medal so far, and para table tennis.
New Zealand’s Sophie Pascoe celebrates her silver medal in the Womens 50m Freestyle S10 Swimming at the Rio Paralympics.
Nwosu’s victory didn’t come easy as only seconds before all was set for her to take the bronze medal.
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Already the performances of Nigeria’s physically-challenged athletes has drowned their main Olympics counterparts who only managed a football bronze medal throughout the competition. Pascoe now has a total of 13 Paralympic medals to her name, including the honor of collecting New Zealand’s 200th Paralympic medal with her silver just two days ago.
