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Kudos, Nigeria Paralympians

They were 29 in number (12 ladies and 17 men), Team Nigeria delegates to the 2012 London Paralympics which was held from August 29 to September 9. Unlike their Olympian counterparts who had no medal to show for their efforts or as opined in some other circle ‘who went to see the queen and count London bridges’, these athletes did Nigeria proud by winning a total of 13 medals; six  of which were gold, five silver and two bronze. Nigeria was patently the king of power-lifting especially in Africa as twelve of the country’s medals were in the event while a consolatory bronze medal was won in Women’s Shot Put by Eucharia Iyiazi . They placed 22 nd out of a total of 74 countries on the medals table and were Africa’s third best coming after Tunisia and South Africa.   Nigeria’s profile on the Paralympics revealed that the country made her Paralympics Games debut in 1992 in Barcelona with a team of six men who competed in athletics, power-lifting and table tennis. Adeoye Ajibola won t