Rio Paralympics: Team Nigeria grabs two more gold medals

Tzu-Hui lifted 131kg to pip Mexico’s Perla Barcenas who thought she had earned it at 126kg.

Goalball is played by visually impaired athletes, who compete in two teams of three players with a ball containing bells. “I’m so happy”, Cox told Channel 4.

“And then to try to repeat that in London, it didn’t quite go the way I wanted it to”.

Earlier, Lauren Steadman took PT4 triathlon silver at Copacabana beach and rower Tom Aggar arms-shoulders single sculls bronze at Lagoa.

Fiji have won one gold medal, from a population of 890,000, while Jamaica’s 2.79 million have seen their country take home three gold medals so far. The 19-year-old’s time of 1:03:05 was just 28 seconds off the leader.

Dame Sarah Storey was the defending champion but fully expected Cox – with the factor in her favour – to beat her.

“I have got to get back on top of what I can do for the transition to the road”.

A Paralympic cyclist has become the first British serviceman or woman injured in Iraq or Afghanistan to win a gold medal – almost a decade after losing his arm. That’s good for 11th in the overall medal count.

Bronze medals of Ukrainian team were brought by Dmytro Prudnikov in the long jump, Dmytro Vanzenko in 200 meters swimming and Serhii Palamarchuk in the 200 meters freestyle swimming.

An accomplished sprinter before a stroke in May 2014 led to multiple sclerosis, she smashed the world record to win in 34.598 seconds.

Already the performances of Nigeria’s physically-challenged athletes has drowned their main Olympics counterparts who only managed a football bronze medal throughout the competition.