PARALYMPICS: EJIKE WINS ANOTHER GOLD FOR NIGERIA, ADESOJI GRABS SILVER

Story by: John Uzor

Lucy Ejike’s victory in the women’s power lifting 48kg event on Wednesday, took Nigeria Gold Medal count to three at the ongoing Beijing 2008 Paralympics Games.

Eucharia Iyiazi and Ruel Ishaku had earlier on Monday given Nigeria two Gold Medals in their events (Shot-Put & Power lifting men) while Adekunle Adesoji added a silver from the 100m – T12 on Wednesday to place Nigeria in a respectable position on the medal table.

Ejike added gold to her medal bag, after winning gold in Athens (2004) and silver in Sydney (2000). Speaking to Xinhua, Ejike said “I like the feeling of breaking the world record, before I came here I planned to break the world record. “After the Athens 2004 Paralympics Games, I was competing in the 44kg category and I broke the world record three times. This time I moved to 48kg category, as I did in Athens 2004 Paralympics Games, I set a world record broke it, set it again and broke it again”.



 

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