Nigeria has won her third gold medal at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games in Brazil through Team Nigeria’s Captain Lucy Ejike who also shattered the Paralympic and world record to dominate the women’s -61kg event in powerlifting.
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But what did she do between the two events?
Kadeena Cox on Saturday won gold in the C4/C5 500 metres time-trial to become the first Briton since Isabel Barr (later Newstead) in 1988 to win Paralympic medals in two sports at the same Games.
Tzu-Hui lifted 131kg to pip Mexico’s Perla Barcenas who thought she had earned it at 126kg.
Something of a medal landslide followed as Thornhill and Scott quickly caught their rivals to bag bronze and Turnham and Hall beat their opponents Foy and Thompson from New Zealand to win the gold in the women’s B individual pursuit.
With Nwosu’s latest feat, Team Nigeria now has five gold medals and is ninth on the overall medals’ log.
Powerlifting has produced seven of the medals won so far by Team Nigeria at games, which ends on September 18.
“For the last year and a half, two years, it’s really been my focus, to prepare for the 400”, Stilwell said.
“I can’t believe this, I am so happy”, she beamed. “I couldn’t realise that it was real”, said the 33-year-old from Lydney in Gloucestershire.
“I have got to get back on top of what I can do for the transition to the road”.
Britain’s most successful ever female Paralympian put up a good fight, but her time of 37.068secs left her outside the medals.
Pascoe was almost a full second clear of her nearest rivals.
Kare Adenegan, who is 15 and from Coventry, took silver behind her team-mate.
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She has four track gold medals, plus was a member of Canada’s wheelchair basketball team that claimed gold in 2000 in Sydney. Sophie Thornhill and pilot Helen Scott took bronze.
