Nigeria’s Ndidi Nwosu has won the country’s 5th gold in the women’s -73kg in the powerlifting event at the ongoing Rio 2016 Paralympics.
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Onye first throw of 7.83m had erased her own world record of 7.72m set at the 2015 IPC world athletics championships in Doha but the Nigerian went further to set the best record in the history of the event. China’s Yan Yang won the Bronze medal with a distant 128kg.
Tzu-Hui lifted 131kg to pip Mexico’s Perla Barcenas who thought she had earned it at 126kg.
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.
Ukrainian Paralympians are still ranked third in the medal table.
Champions of Paralympics Games have become: Leilia Adzhametova in the women’s 100 metres run, Roman Polianskyi in rowing, Oleksii Fedyn in the 100 metres brace swimming, Denys Dubrov in the 200 metres swimming and Natalia Kosmina in table tennis.
Going into the Rio Paralympics is really a process of challenging herself, she said, and it showed her that there is always hope for victory as long as she does not give up.
Innocent Nnamdi on Sunday, also won Bronze in the men’s -72kg class in the Powerlifting event with a lift of 210kg.
The aforementioned countries have either more silver or bronze than Nigeria at the moment.
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Ejike’s gold added to Paul Kehinde, who also broke a world record by lifting 220kg when winning the 65kg men’s category, and Roland Ezuruike, who had triumphed on Friday and set a new Paralympic record in the 54kg category.
