Nigeria
finished as the top African team at the 2016 Paralympics as 16th overall on the
medals table.
Nigeria’s
record-setting Paralympic athletes have returned to the country and they were
given a hero’s welcome by the sports ministry.
According to The Vanguard,
the team returned on Sunday via the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja
and were greeted by officials from the Ministry of Sports.
Team Nigeria Paralympics
return to the country
The Team Nigeria
Paralympics won a Nigerian-record 8 gold medals at the Rio Paralympic Games
alongside two silver and two bronze medals.
The team also set six new
world records in the process.
Having left for the 2016
Paralympics without any fanfare and on the heels of another disappointing
Olympic Games show, the physically-challenged athletes lifted spirits high in
Rio where they amassed a dozen medals.
The country’s best ever
placement in the Paralympics was the 22nd position achieved in Sydney 2000.
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