{"id":47745,"date":"2024-09-09T13:34:17","date_gmt":"2024-09-09T13:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=47745"},"modified":"2024-09-09T13:34:17","modified_gmt":"2024-09-09T13:34:17","slug":"team-nigeria-wins-7-medals-as-curtains-fall-on-2024-paralympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/09\/09\/team-nigeria-wins-7-medals-as-curtains-fall-on-2024-paralympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Nigeria Wins 7 Medals as Curtains Fall on 2024 Paralympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Team Nigeria finished in 40th position overall on the Paris 2024 Paralympics final Medal table.<br \/>\nAfter the conclusion of this year\u2019s edition, Team Nigeria won a total of seven medals: two gold, three silver and two bronze.<\/p>\n<p>Also, the Nigerian contingent placed 4th in Africa behind Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco.<br \/>\nAlgeria finished in 25th spot with six gold and five bronze, Tunisia occupied 27th with five gold, three silver and three bronze.<\/p>\n<p>Folashade Oluwafemiayo clinched Team Nigeria\u2019s second gold medal on the final day when she emerged tops in the women\u2019s para-powerlifting.<br \/>\nAlso, she broke two world records to land another gold after achieving the feat at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic.<\/p>\n<p>Since 1992 Barcelona Paralympics, Nigerian Paralympians have won medals at all the nine editions they have been to.<\/p>\n<p>China finished first in the final medal standing with 94 gold, 76 silver and 50 bronze, Great Britain was second with 49 gold, 44 silver and 31 bronze.<br \/>\nThe United States of America was third after amassing 36 gold, 42 silver and 27 bronze.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Team Nigeria finished in 40th position overall on the Paris 2024 Paralympics final Medal table. After the conclusion of this year\u2019s edition, Team Nigeria won a total of seven medals: two gold, three silver and two bronze. Also, the Nigerian contingent placed 4th in Africa behind Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco. Algeria finished in 25th spot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":47747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[1502,1322],"class_list":["post-47745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-2024-paralympics","tag-team-nigeria"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47745"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47771,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47745\/revisions\/47771"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}