On Monday, Nigeria’s power lifter Bose Omolayo snapped up the gold medal in the women’s 79kg category with a lift of 138kg to set a new Paralympics Games and world record.
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Nigeria now has 11 medals – 8 gold, 2 silver and 1 bronze medal – and is 10th on the overall medals table, and number one in Africa.
The Netherlands’ Melaica Tuinfort claimed the bronze medal with a 130kg lift.
Out of the 20 gold medals at stake in the men and women events of power-lifting, Nigeria claimed six with female athletes winning four of the six gold medals for the West African nation.
The determined Nigerian however picked herself up and came into her third attempt shattering the world record by lifting 154kg.
Egypt’s Amany Ali made do with the bronze medal, after lifting 127 kg.
ParalympicsGB won 120 medals at London 2012 and the target for Rio was one more than that total.
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The Rio Paralympics began on September 7th (two weeks after the end of the summer Olympics), and it will continue until September 18th.
