Team Nigeria contingent at the Rio 2016 Paralympics have continued their impressive form on Day 5 at the games.
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Prior to Monday’s feat by Onye and Nwosu, Tunisia was leading the continent’s medal haul with four gold medals but Nigeria overtook the North Africa with Onye setting a new world record in the women’s shot put F40 of athletic event.
The four of James Fox, Pam Relph, Dan Brown and Grace Clough shouted and punched the air as the Paralympics squad looked to repeat the success on the water than their Olympic colleagues had achieved.
Her fiancé Neil Fachie, who she marries, at the end of October took silver in the men’s B 1000m time trial alongside pilot Pete Mitchell earlier in the session.
The 23-year-old comes into the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games in dominant form, after winning three Gold, a Silver and two Bronze at the 2015 IPC Swimming World Championship.
Nigeria is also competing in para-athletics, which has yielded one gold medal so far, and para table tennis.
If you look at gold medals per million of population, New Zealand slips to third with Fiji topping the list, and Jamaica rising to second spot.
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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.
