She swam a time of 2.24.90 minutes, beating her own world record by over half a second and defending the Olympic title from London four years ago.
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Tzu-Hui lifted 131kg to pip Mexico’s Perla Barcenas who thought she had earned it at 126kg.
Ejike’s medal is Nigeria’s fifth at the ongoing Games, and third Gold medal behind Roland Ezuruike and Paul Kehinde who also dominated their respective categories in the Powerlifting event.
(IranSportsPress.com| PressTV)- Iranian archers have picked up a silver medal at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
The victory is Pascoe’s second of Rio 2016, and she also has a silver.
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.
Great Britain won the gold, while New Zealand’s newest tandem pairing of Amanda Cameron and Hannah van Kampen finished fourth.
The 37-year-old from Guildford, who made the transition from cycling to rowing after London 2012, won arms-shoulders single sculls to claim Paralympic gold just eight years after cycling time-trial gold in Beijing.
Braving the odds in Rio, the country’s Paralympians have now amassed a total nine medals.
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Apart from the medal won in athletics by Onye, all the medals won by Team Nigeria came from Powerlifting with hope for more medals in the event.
