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| *Adesokan wins again |
Nigerian power-lifters
have one more proved their worth by ending the 2014 IPC
Powerlifting World Championships in Dubai in third position, winning 5 gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze medals
on the last day of competition on Friday.. Gold medals were won by Adesokan
Yakubu in the men’s 49 kg class, Ibrahim Abdulazeez in the men’s 97kg class,
Precious Orji in the women 86 kg class, Esther Onyema in the women’s 55kg class
and Ijeoma Iherobiem in the women’s 73kg class. By the same tokenLoveline Obiji
won a silver in women 86kg class and
Ulonnam Anthony grabbed a bronze in the men 59 kg class to push the country up
the medal table. Strikingly, Adesokan added another feather to his cap as he
broke a world record in his final lift of 181kg over Vietnam’s Le van Cong who had made
a lift of 103kg hence the Nigerian got into the record books once more and
completed a unique Grand Slam of Paralympic, world and Commonwealth titles.
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