Para-Powerlifter Folashade Oluwafemiayo Sets New World Record
Team Nigeria finished the 2024 Paralympic Games in France with a total of seven medals after para-powerlifter Folashade Oluwafemiayo created a new world record by lifting 167 kg in the women’s 86 kg category on Sunday, September 9, 2024, to win gold. Read more about Sports The Nigerian beat her world record after outlifting […]
Onyinyechi Mark Sets New World Record, Wins Nigeria’s First 2024 Paralympic Gold
Nigerian Paralympic powerlifting athlete Onyinyechi Mark has set a new world record by lifting an impressive 150 kg in the 61 kg category on Friday, September 6, 2024. Read more about Sports Onyinyechi Mark, 23, out-lifted opponents in the La Chapelle Arena, such as China’s Cui Jianjin, who won silver after lifting 140 kg, […]
Tobi Amusan Breaks World Record, Wins Nigeria’s First World Athletics Championship Gold
Amusan beat Jamaica’s Britany Anderson and Puerto Rican Jasmine Camacho-Quinn to win the event. Read more about Sports Nigerian sprinter Tobi Amusan made history in the early hours of Monday, July 25, 2022 (WAT) after beating the World Record in the women’s 100m hurdles event at the World Athletics Championship in Eugene, Oregon. Amusan clocked […]
Golden Moments In Sport: When Laurrita Onye Broke The World Record Twice In One Event
Laurrita Onye was the star of the show in the women’s Shot put F40 event at the 2016 Rio Paralympics, where she defied all odds to win Nigeria’s first Track and Field medal on Day 4 of the competition. Onye was clearly on a class of her own — breaking two World Records (WR) in […]
Nigerian Sets World Record
An energetic Nigerian biker Ogbonnaya Kanu has set a new world record by becoming the first man to ride from Nigeria to Cape Agulhas, the southernmost tip of the African continent. And it is not the first record achieved by Kanu, who last year rode to Europe and back in 36 days. Also known as […]
Nigerian Paralympians Roll Out The Gold Medals
By Obi Martins Okafor. Our Olympians might have come back from the Olympic Games early, but the team Nigeria for the Paralympics Games have shown no such intensions, as a matter of fact, they have won 4 gold medals from the one going games in London. One of Nigeria’s Gold medalist is 30 year-old Oyema, […]