Ukraine and the United States are in third and fourth places, with Australia in fifth.
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The latest performances take Britain’s medal total to 132, with 34 silvers and 38 bronzes.
Only the tally of 107 golds from the NY andStoke Mandeville Games of 1984 seems beyond this team. “The name of Bahman Golbarnezhad will be inscribed in the proud history of Iranian Paralympics”.
One caveat in the medal count is that the Russian team is absent, banned by the International Paralympic Committee for state-sponsored doping. Moreover, all of the medals also have the words “Rio 2016 Paralympic Games” written on them in Braille. Paralympic athletes winning medals at the Rio Paralympic Games can hear their medals with the help of steel balls fitted inside the medals.
The 32-year-old put up a splendid display as she erased Tunisian Hania Aidi’s World Record (WR) of 18.86m set at the IPC World Championships in Doha last year.Ugwunwa furthered the mark by nearly 2m, throwing an impressive 20.25m in her third attempt to also shatter Liwan Yang’s Paralympic Record (PR) of 17.89m set at the London Games four years ago.
The cyclist, who has also won five of her golds in the swimming pool, is just two short of the leading British paralympic gold medal victor Mike Kenny.
The 19-year-old had gone 11 tournaments undefeated in the lead-up to her Paralympic debut and she did not disappoint when her time arrived on the big stage.
“When you think we won 65 medals there like that, this makes this team incredible”.
Great Britain had earlier beaten Turkey 82-76 in overtime in the battle for the bronze medal. These may just see Nigeria finish as the top African team at the 2016 Paralympics.
In the men’s category A foil, the world number two, Hungary’s Richard Osvath, could not prevent a third Chinese gold medal as he went down to China’s Ruyi Ye.
Ireland won their 10th medal of the Paralympics when Katie-George Dunlevy and pilot Eve McCrystal claimed silver in the women’s tandem event.
Orji shattered the world record of the women’s +86kg power-lifting event with a lift of 154kg to win the gold medal.The swashbuckling fair complexioned Nigerian ended the gold rush after earning the eighth for the country in what could largely be seen as a successful outing in Rio.
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Then Russell triumphed in 27.53 for her second gold of the Games.
