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Nigeria ranked third best African team after finishing with 10 medals at Tokyo Paralympics

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Tokyo Paralympics

Workforce Nigeria has ended its 2020 Tokyo Paralympic Video games with a complete of 10 medals comprising 4 gold, one silver, and 5 bronze medals.

Nigeria went to the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics with 22 athletes and received a complete of 10 medals.

Lauritta Onye began the closing day of Nigeria’s contest by profitable bronze within the girls F40 shot put occasion and Flora Ugunnwa introduced icing on the cake with gold within the F54 javelin occasion.

Flora Ugunnwa threw 18.39 metres to say a gold medal within the girls’s f-54 javelin occasion and retain the title she received on the Rio De Janeiro 2016 video games.

Eucharia Iyiazi received a bronze medal within the girls shot put – F40, whereas Lauritta Onye took dwelling one other bronze medal within the girls’s, shot put – F57 occasion.

The nation additionally claimed bronze within the Males’s Workforce – Lessons 9-10 desk tennis occasion.

China completed prime of the log amassing a complete of 200 medals comprising of 93 gold, 57, silver and 50 bronze medals with Nice Britain coming a distant second with 41 gold, 38 silver, and 43 bronze medals totaling 122 medals whereas the Russian Paralympic Committee are currently third with 36 gold, 32 silver, and 49 bronze medals.

Tunisia are the highest-ranked African nation on the Video games with 4 gold, 5 silver, and two bronze medals whereas Algeria are second with 4 gold, 4 silver, and 4 bronze medals.

Nigeria are at present third on the log whereas South Africa’s 4 gold, one silver, and one bronze medal place them fourth with Morocco within the fifth with three gold, 4 silver, and two bronze medals.