The Nigerian team achieved its first major success at the current 2020 Tokyo Paralympic Games. One of the country’s weightlifters, Latifat Tijani, won the gold medal in the women’s 45 kg category.
Tijani won the championship with a maximum score of 107 kg, ahead of silver medalist Cui Zhe of China. The bronze medalist in was the Polish Justyna Kozdryk.
Tijani’s feat is an improvement over her previous record of 106 kg at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Summer Games.
She also won the bronze medal in the women’s 45 kg category at the World Paralympic Weightlifting Championships in 2019.
Before Tijani’s success, Nigeria’s Yakubu Adesokan, who hopes to win a gold medal at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympic Games, failed to make it to the final of the 49th session on Thursday morning. Podium.
Adesokan finished fourth with a weight of 155 kg. The podium was awarded to the Qarada trio Omar Hamadeh from Jordan, who won the gold medal, Le Van Cong from Vietnam won the silver medal, and Mamnadov Parvin from Azerbaijan won the bronze medal.
After the first and second attempts to lift 155 kg, Yakubu tried but failed in the third time by 156 kg. In order to close the gap, he desperately lifted 161 kg, but he also hesitated.
Qarada and Le Cong both completed the final weightlifting of 173 kg, but Qarada led Le Cong with more points from previous weightlifting. The
Result means that they swapped positions at the 2016 Rio Olympics, where Lecong won the gold medal with 181 kg and Karadag won the silver medal with 177 kg.
