Hu Jianwen celebrates after winning the men’s 100 meter event at the Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro on September 13, 2016.
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Devos was pumped for a Paralympic title at Rio 2016, braving his way through to Gold without dropping a single game throughout the tournament.
Bronze medals of Ukrainian team were brought by Dmytro Prudnikov in the long jump, Dmytro Vanzenko in 200 meters swimming and Serhii Palamarchuk in the 200 meters freestyle swimming.
Nigeria’s performance so far at the Paralympics means that they are now the highest-ranked nation in Africa, positioned 9th in the overall medals table between Uzbekistan in 8th and Germany in 10th.
Nigeria’s Paralympians are doing their best to make up for the country’s poor showing at the Olympics.
Much of the success has been down to dominance on the powerlifting benches.
Innocent Nnamdi on Sunday, also won Bronze in the men’s -72kg class in the Powerlifting event with a lift of 210kg. The Nigeria captain started off with a successful lift at 136.0kg, which then became a new Paralympic Record and World Record as well. Latifat Tijani and Esther Onyema won Silver medals respectively.
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Her first throw of 7.83m, saw her break her world record of 7.72m, set at the 2015 IPC World Athletics Championships in Doha.
