“I have never cried on a podium before that is how emotional the games have been and how much these medals have meant to me this time”.
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“And then it became the journey of wanting to win medals, but not for me, for other people”. It was veteran Mohammad Khamis Khalaf who won the UAE’s first gold in the men’s 88kg powerlifting competition.
“Congratulations Mohamad Ridzuan Mohamad Puzi, gold in 100m, Muhamad Ziyad Zolkefli, gold in shot put, Abdul Latif Romly, gold in long jump and Siti Noor Radiah Ismail, bronze in long jump”.
The two-sport athlete won the paratriathlon in Rio, as part of the USA women’s team that swept the medal stand.
The Iranian flag has been lowered to half-staff at the Paralympic Village and a moment of silence will be held at the Closing Ceremony.
RIO DE JANEIRO-An armless guitarist ripped out riffs with his toes, dancers in wheelchairs performed handstands and Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike was handed the Paralympic flag by Rio Mayor Eduardo Paes.
Born with paralyzing congenital disorder Spina bifida, Tatyana McFadden spent the first six years of her life in Russian Federation walking on her hands.
Hailing from Kwa-Zulu Natal, Big shot-putter Pillay picked up the seventh medal for South Africa.
Her record-breaking win saw her clinch victory ahead of her British team-mate Jessica-Jane Applegate.
After losing the first set, Bosnia and Herzegovina fought back in the second to beat their rivals 25-21.
Oliver Hynd smashed the world record in the 200m individual medley SM8 to retain his Paralympic title, while Firth’s team-mate Hannah Russell won her second gold medal in the 50m freestyle S12.
23-year-old Johannesburg-born Liebenberg nabbed a silver in the women’s 400m T47 final.
They arrived at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja from the just concluded Rio Paralympic Games where they won 12 medals – eight gold medals, two silver medals and two bronze medals.
Track and field Javelin thrower Hamman snatched a gold in the men’s T20 Javelin throw. He died in the C4/C5 road race on Saturday, and this incident is marked as the first tragedy in the history of Paralympics Games.
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Weightlifter Amal Mahmoud, who won a bronze medal in the women’s under-67 kg category, criticized all TV channels fiercely for ignoring the event, in contrast to the Olympic Games, which recieved huge coverage.
