2024 PARALYMPICS: UGWUNWA WINS SILVER IN JAVELIN, SECURES FIFTH MEDAL FOR TEAM NIGERIA
Team Nigeria on Saturday in Paris at the 2024 Paralympic Games added a silver medal to its haul, after Flora Ugwunwa won in the women’s javelin throw event.
Ugwunwa, who competed in the women’s F54 category of the athletics event, achieved a throw of 19.26 metres to finish second in the competition.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that this winning throw was her second in the competition’s final, with her first being 18.00m.
Her third was 18.24m, with the fourth, fifth and sixth being 18.68m, 18.40m and 17.50m respectively.
Uzbekistan’s Nurkhon Kurbanova won the event’s gold medal with a world record-setting throw of 21.12m as her best in the mandatory six throws.
Kurbanova, who had earlier won the bronze medal in women’s shot put F54, never gave her competitors a chance.
She had throws of 20.07, 21.02, 20.27, 21.02 and 20.98 in her first, second, third, fourth and sixth throws respectively, with the world record-setting 21.12 in the fifth throw.
NAN reports that Ugwunwa’s win has now made it one gold, two silver and two bronze medals so far to place Team Nigeria in the 52nd position at the Games.
The Games comes to an end on Sunday
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