The 25-year-old, along with Pamela Relph, Grace Clough, Daniel Brown and James Fox, were the favourites going into Sunday’s race and defended the gold that GB won at London 2012 by finishing ahead of the US and Canada.
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But perhaps more significantly, the achievements of Nigeria’s Paralympians have cast those of the able-bodied counterparts into the shadows.
Thus, at the end of four days of competition, the Ukrainian team has won 49 medals: 18 gold, 13 silver and 18 bronze medals.
The 30-year-old from Sutton Coldfield triumphed in the C1-5 mixed team sprint at the Rio Paralympics on Sunday alongside Jody Cundy and Louis Rolfe.
The country is now number 9 on the medal rankings table.
Much of the success has been down to dominance on the powerlifting benches.
Track sprint trio Jody Cundy, Jon-Allan Butterworth and Louis Rolfe set a new world record with their gold medal winning ride. The Nigerian who was also a star of the London Paralympics then improved her record by lifting 138.0kg at her next attempt, before completing the quality outing with a massive lift of 142.0kg.
Sophie Thornhill and her pilot Helen Scott took bronze.
It is Team Nigeria’s sixth gold medal of the on-going Rio Paralympics.
Ejike did not only win a gold medal but did so in an astonishing manner, shattering the Paralympic and World Record three successive times to dominate the women’s -61kg event in Powerlifting.
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They were two of seven medals for Britain’s swimmers as Rebecca Redfearn (SB13 100m breaststroke), and Tom Hamer (men’s S14 200m freestyle) also claimed silver and Josef Craig (men’s S8 100m freestyle), Stephanie Millward (women’s S8 100m freestyle) and Amy Maren (SM9 200m individual medley) claimed bronze.
