Nigeria’s
Christian Mmadubuike Ifeanyichukwu has set a new world record in the
T46 200m at the Tunis 2019 Para Athletics Grand Prix and Paralympic
Games qualifier as the 4-man Nigerian showed unusual strength to raise
its medal haul to 4 gold, 3 silver on day two of the competition.
Ifeanyichukwu
who is on his first international competition ran a time of 22.20
seconds to shake off a hot challenge by his Indonesian counterpart to
win his second gold medal at the tournament after he had also returned
first in the 100m on day one.
His
compatriot, Uwak Unyime Christopher, also seized her moment in the
women category, finishing at 27.03 to best her Indonesian and Mozambican
chasers for the gold. She adds to her silver medal in the 100m in which
she ran 13 seconds on opening day.
Rio
2016 Paralympic medalist, Flora Ugwunwa, also adeed a silver in the
women F54 600gr Javelin event to her opening day gold medal in her
regular F58 category in which she threw 18.04m, 2 metres below her world
record of 20.25m.
Flora
opted to try her hands in the F54 javelin which is above her weight
category just to make up for the inability of other Nigerian athletes to
attend the competition due to fund constraints.
Lauritta
Onye, also a Rio 2016 gold medalist and world record holder in F40 shot
put contributes to the medals tally with silver finish on opening day.
Her 8.15m throw was however the best of the tournament, but President of
the Nigeria Para Athletics Federation, Chikwendu Amobi, has explained
that her placement was only as a result of the use of direct instead of
Fazza computation for her.
“All
the athletes have done very well. It’s four athletes and they have won
four gold medals and three silver medals. We are the smallest contingent
here but we have a strong standing on the table, including setting a
world record. We are not perturbed about Lauritta second position. She
threw the best distance but they decided to use direct instead of the
Fazza standard computation for her. We believe she will retain her world
best position at the IPC World Championship in Dubai in November and
would improve even better at the Paralympics,” he assured.
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