Rio Paralympics: Nigeria wins 7th gold medal
Flora Ugwunwa set a new world
record in the women’s javelin – F54 event on Tuesday at the Rio Paralympics to
give Nigeria its seventh gold medal.
She
recorded a throw of 20.25 metres after six attempts to win the gold medal and
take Nigeria’s tally to seven gold, two silver and one bronze medals.
On a
day when Nigeria’s medals’ search was looking to be futile after some failure
in the favourite hunting ground of power-lifting, the athletics event provided
succour.
Ugwunwa
beat a field of nine to set new Paralympic and world records, while Tunisia’s
Hania Aidi won the silver medal with a throw of 18.88m.
South Africa’s Ntombizanele
Situ completed the African sweep of the event’s medals by winning the bronze
medal with a heave of 17.90m.
Earlier
in the day, Nigeria had been so close but still far from winning any medal on
the day after some unsuccessful outings.
In
power-lifting men’s -88kg, Opeyemi Jegede could only place fifth, while
Abdulazeez Ibrahim placed sixth in power-lifting men’s -97 kg
The
Games will come to an end on Sunday.
NAN
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