Team Nigeria’s captain at the Games, Lucy Ejike, won gold in the 61kg women’s category on Sunday by setting a new world record, lifting 142kg.
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The NZ Paralympic star won her eighth gold medal in the 200m individual medley in Rio in some style. “It’s my last 200m in the Paralympic arena”.
That means we have 1.99 medals per million New Zealand residents, while Slovenia and Jamaica sit in second and third respectively with 1.93 and 1.79 medals per million. “We just had the race of our lives and we enjoyed it”.
New Zealand are now 10th on the medal table with four gold, threee silver and two bronze.
Cyclist Jon-Allan Butterworth has become the first British serviceman or woman injured in Iraq or Afghanistan to win a Paralympic gold medal. “I put that right here and I came away with a medal, so I’m so pleased”.
He joined the Battleback programme – a partnership between the British Paralympic Association and the Ministry of Defence – and now is a Paralympic champion. In the space of an hour, Great Britain heaved and pulled through the water to win three golds and one bronze, dominating the rowing regatta.
“There was no way I was going to come this far for silver”, Butterworth said.
Lora Turnham and her pilot Corrine Hall also won gold in the velodrome, in the tandem three-kilometres pursuit as Britain finished the four-day track competition with 12 medals, eight of them gold.
Five more medals followed in the swimming pool midway through the finals session, with Firth and Jessica-Jane Applegate finishing first and second in the S14 200 metres freestyle.
Morris, a former cycling champion who switched to rowing a year after being hit by a auto during a training ride shortly before London 2012, believes her gold medal should inspire people in times of adversity.
Lauren Rowles and Laurence Whiteley triumphed in the double sculls event and the mixed coxed four team were victorious, too, taking Britain’s tally to 18 gold medals.
There were two more triathlon medals, with silver and bronze in the PT5 event.
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Alison Patrick and Mel Reid won silver and bronze medals in the PT5.
