Paralympics Tokyo2020: Nigeria Signs Out With 2 More Medals (10 Medals In Total)

Workforce Nigeria has signed out of the Tokyo2020 Paralympic Video games on a excessive with two(2) extra medals.

The Paralympic Video games holding from August 24 – September 5, 2021 has seen Nigeria rap up 3 Gold, 1 Silver and 4 Bronze medals within the Para-Powerlifting, Para-Desk Tennis & Para-Athletics occasions, prior until in the present day.

Lauritta Onye clinched Nigeria’s ninth medal, a bronze within the ladies’s F40 ShotPut occasion, throwing a Season’s Better of 8.29m.

Renata Sliwinska #POL takes #Gold within the ladies’s F40 shot put!

#Silver for Nourhein Belhaj Salem #TUN
#Bronze goes to Lauritta Onye #NGR

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The Ikeduru-born Onye introduced her arrival on the Athletics scene by clinching Silver (7.01m) on the 2011 All African Video games in Maputo, Mozambique.

The 37-year-old went on to set a brand new Ladies’s Shotput F40 World Report of seven.59m on the 2015 Africa Para-Athletics Championships in Tunis, Tunisia.

She additionally clinched Silver within the discus-throw occasion.

She smashed her earlier document, throwing 7.72m on the 2015 IPC World Championships in Doha and went on to throw an enormous World Report 8.40m within the ladies’s Shotput T40, to win Gold in Rio 2016.

Onye claimed Bronze on the 2019 World Championships in Dubai (throwing 8.00m) to qualify for the Tokyo2020 Paralympic Video games.

Asides Sports activities, she starred within the Nollywood movie Lords of Cash, showing below the title Laury White.