Team Nigeria grabs two more gold, breaks another world record

Handout image supplied by OIS/IOC showing Nigeria’s Lauritta Onye, Gold Medal winner in the Women’s Shot Put – F40 Final in the Olympic Stadium, during the Paralympic Games, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on September 11, 2016. Photo by Thomas Lovelock for OIS/IOC via AFP.

Nigeria yesterday continued its impressive form at the on-going Rio 2016 Paralympic Games when it won two more gold medals and a bronze to bring the country’s tally to five gold, two silver and a bronze medal.

Powerlifting gave the country the previous medals and one of the gold medals yesterday, but athletics also came to the party with a gold in the shot put event.

Powerlifter, Ndidi Nwosu, got the country off to a good start on the day when she won gold at the women 73kg event, while Onye Lauritta won the country’s first gold medal in athletics when she took the gold in the shot put event with a new world record.