On her first outing at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games, she won silver in the Women’s 50m Freestyle S10 and on her second outing a day later, she won a gold in the Women’s 100m Backstroke S10.
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Team Nigeria’s medal in the Games has increased to eight, following Latifat Tijani’s Silver, Roland Ezuruike’s Gold, Paul Kehinde’s Gold, and Oyema Esther’s Silver in their respective events.
Braving the odds in Rio, the country’s Paralympians have now amassed a total nine medals.
Great Britain won the gold, while New Zealand’s newest tandem pairing of Amanda Cameron and Hannah van Kampen finished fourth.
Chinese team tops the medal table of the Paralympics 2016 with 92 medals and the United Kingdom ranks the second with 56 medals. For India, given the treatment meted out to Olympic athletes/medal-winners vis-a-vis Paralympics ones, the answer is an unfortunate “yes”.
Omolayo on her part shattered her own World Record (WR) and set a new one of 138kg to win Nigeria’s sixth gold.
This has brought Ukraine to the third place both in the team event, and in the number of gold medals.
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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. Lauritta won gold with a world record throw of 8.40 meters, more than a meter further than silver medalist Rima Abdelli of Tunisia.
