Medals table after the third day of competition at the 2012 Paralympic Games on Saturday: Gold Silver Bronze Total China 20 15 21 56 Australia 11 5 13 29 Great Britain 9 16 11 36 Ukraine 9 6 7 22 Russia 8 9 5 22 United States 6 6 10 22 Nigeria 4 3 0 [...]
Nigeria moved to 10th place on the medals table at the end of proceedings on Friday in London at the 2012 Paralympic Games with two gold and two silver medals. After winning a gold medal on the first day of competition on Thursday through Yakubu Adesokan who also set a new world and Paralympic record, [...]
Ivory Nwokorie has won Team Nigeria’s second gold medal in the women’s 44kg powerlifting event of the London 2012 Paralympic Games. Nwokorie, who won a bronze medal in the Para-powerlifting championship held in Dubai recently, lifted a combined weight of 109kg to finish ahead of Cigdem Dede of Turkey (silver) and Lidia Soloviova of Ukraine [...]
Nigeria’s Yakubu Adesokan, who twice broke his own world record yesterday to win a gold medal in the Powerlifting event of London 2012 Paralympic Games, has fulfilled his promise to Nigeria. The 33-year-old travelled to London 2012 as the favourite for glory in the men’s -48kg class, having claimed a world record earlier this year [...]
Nigeria has won its first gold medal at the London Paralympics Games. It was earned by Yakubu Adesokan in powerlifting in the men’s 48kg class. Russia’s Vladimir Balynetc won silver and Egypt’s Taha Abdelmagid won the bronze. British cyclist Sarah Storey stormed to her eighth Paralympic gold, taking the women’s C5 individual 3km pursuit after [...]
Queen Elizabeth II on Wednesday officially opened the London Paralympics, at a showpiece ceremony aimed at challenging perceptions about disability and celebrating the triumph of the human spirit. The 86-year-old declared the Games open in a short speech in the traditional curtain-raiser to 11 days of sporting action at an event involving over 3,000 performers, [...]
Captain of Team Nigeria to the London 2012 Olympics, Chika Chukwumerije, has tendered an unreserved apology to Nigerians for his failure and that of the team at the recently concluded Games. Chukwumerije told journalists in Lagos yesterday that his performance in London was short of expectations of Nigerians, who wanted him to surpass his bronze [...]
