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NIGERIA’S athletes at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games have won more medals for the country. These wins have come from powerlifting, a sport in which the country’s athletes have been dominant.

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Paul Kehinde

Paul Kehinde who represented Nigeria in the 65kg men’s category outclassed his two closest rivals, China’s Peng Hu and Egypt’s Shaaban Ibrahim, to clinch the country’s second gold medal in the competition. He did this by lifting 218kg, about 18kg more than Hu, who finished second. Kehinde’s victory takes the number of medals collected by Team Nigeria at the games to four.

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Ronald Ezuruike

Ronald Ezuruike had on Friday won gold in the men’s 54kg powerlifting category, smashing the previous record for the category in the process. His win gave Nigeria its second medal in the games, following a silver delivered by Latifat Tijani who won a silver, also in powerlifting. On Saturday, it was the turn of Esther Oyema to have her say on the Nigeria’s medal tally. She secured a second silver medal by lifting 127kg, 3kg less than Mexico’s Amalia Perez’s record breaking lift.

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Latifat Tijani
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Esther Onyema

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This article was first published on 11th September 2016

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Ikenna Nwachukwu holds a bachelor's degree in Economics from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. He loves to look at the world through multiple lenses- economic, political, religious and philosophical- and to write about what he observes in a witty, yet reflective style.


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