Nigeria has added to her Gold medal at the Paralympic Games holding in Tokyo, Japan.
The event which commenced on August 24 will come to a close on September 5, 2021.
Nigeria’s Lucy Ejike and Olaitan Ibrahim clinched bronze medals at the Para-Powerlifting event.
Lucy Ejike who participated in the -61kg event clinched Bronze.
This is her 6th consecutive Paralympics event (starting from Sydney 2000), and in the past had won 3 Gold and 2 Silver medals.
That was an incredible battle to watch!! A very hard-fought podium! On last attempt Ruza reaches podium and Amalia claims �!
#Gold Amalia P. #MEX – 131kg
#Silver Ruza K. #UZB – 130kg
#Bronze Lucy E. #NGR – 130kg
#Paralympics #Powerlifting #Tokyo2020
@paralympics @tokyo2020
Olaitan Ibrahim lifted 119kg to take Bronze.
It’s back to back #Gold medals for Yujiao Tan of #CHN in the Women’s -67kg #Powerlifting with a winning lift of 133kg.
#Silver goes to Fatma Omar of #EGY
#Bronze goes to Olaitan Ibrahim of #NGR
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Pix: Lucy Ejike & Olaitan Ibrahim
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