Nigeria’s Flora Ugwunwa has secured a Silver medal in the women’s Javelin F54 event at the ongoing Paris 2024 Paralympic Games. Ugwunwa’s impressive throw of 19.26 meters earned her second place, just behind Uzbekistan’s Nurkhon Kurbanova, who set a new world record with a throw of 21.12 meters.....CONTINUE READING THE ARTICLE FROM THE SOURCE
This victory marks Nigeria’s first medal in Para-Athletics at the Paris Paralympics, bringing the nation’s total medal count to four.
The 40-year-old Ugwunwa continues her stellar Paralympic career, having previously won two Gold medals in Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020, and now adding a Silver in Paris.
