Crew Nigeria’s Folashade Oluwafemiayo has gained gold for Nigeria within the girls’s 86kg powerlifting with a world document 166kg to retain her title.
Deng Xuemei of China gained silver whereas Nadia Ali of Egypt settled for bronze.
Oluwafemiayo’s unimaginable efficiency takes Nigeria’s medal tally on the Paralympics to seven medals total.
The Nigerian broke her World Report within the girls’s over 86kg Para-Powerlifting, turning into the primary Para-athlete in historical past to carry 166kg.
It was an enchancment from her current WR of 165kg. She additionally added a gold medal to the document.
Oluwafemiayo who’s Crew Nigeria’s normal captain for Paris 2024 additionally gained gold on the Tokyo 2020 Video games and silver medal on the London 2012 Video games respectively.
She missed the Rio 2016 Video games by way of being pregnant, earlier than returning 5 years later to win gold at Tokyo 2020.
