As the 2012 Paralympic Games rounded off in London on Sunday, the Nigerian athletes to the Paralympics made the nation proud with a fine display at the games which earned them 13 medals over all, Nigeria finished with six gold, five silver and two bronze.
Team Nigeria athletes also set four world records through Esther Oyema, Yakubu Adesokan, Joy Onaolapo and Folashade Oluwafemiayo.
African nations' performance at the Games represented a marginal improvement over their performance at the last Paralympic Games in Beijing, China, in 2008, where only eight nations made the medals table.
The 10 African countries notched up 112 medals, made up of 38 gold, 36 silver and 38 bronze medals.
Nigeria, which led Africa's medals table from the beginning of the games, was beaten to the third place by Tunisia.
Tunisia, now Africa's number one at the end of the Paralympic Games, won 19 medals - nine gold, five silver and five bronze, to beat South Africa, which had 25 medals - eight gold, 12 silver and seven bronze medals - to the second position.
Nigeria, which placed third with 13 medals over all, had six gold, five silver and two bronze.
Nigeria, however, ended up the Games' overall number one winners of the Power lifting event, from where it won 12 of its 13 medals.
Algeria placed fourth with a total of 19 medals - (4-6-9), Egypt had 15 (4-4-7), Morocco (3-0-3), Kenya (2-2-2),
Others are: Namibia (1-1-0), Angola (1-0-1) and Ethiopia (0-1-0). Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
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That is ability in disability. The able-bodieds could not give us just one medals. The disableds have given us something to cheer about.
ReplyDeleteKudos to them.
And Government should please show them love.
I just hope our good Sport commission will not flood their own disables to the next Paralympics based on who know man. That is when Nigeria will attend without a medal like our ably disabled lots that went for the Olympics
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