Nigerian power-lifter, Josephine Orji, last night shattered the World Record of the women's -+86kg power-lifting event at the ongoing 2016 Paralympics Games in Rio, Brazil with a lift of 154kg to win the gold medals, giving Nigeria 8 Gold,2 Silver and 1 Bronze currently.The gold medal is Nigeria's 8th at the 2016 Paralympics. Team Nigeria is comfortably seated in the 10th position on the overall medals table. Poland's Marzena Zieba who finished with 134kg settled for the silver finished while Holland's Melaica Tuinfort got the consolatory bronze with her best lift of 130kg in the +86kg category.
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