Nigeria names 23 athletes, 6 coaches for Rio 2016 Paralympic Games

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360 GP have gathered that the Paralympic Committee of Nigeria,PCN, and the Ministry of Sports, have named 23 athletes and six coaches that would represent the country at the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio.



The competiton is set to begin on 7 and 8 of September.

The PCN’s Media Officer, Mr. Patrick Ibeh, confirmed yhe list and revealed that Nigeria will be competing in only three sports: athletics, powerlifting and table tennis.

List Of Athletics include: Hannah Babalola, Eucharia Iyiazi, Lauritta Onye, Lovina Onyegbule, Flora Ugwunwa and Friday Aibangbe. And Patrick Aieto and Adekunle Adesoji are the two coaches.

The athletes for powerlifting include: Nsini Ben, Lucy Ejike, Ndidi Nwosu, Bose Omolayo, Josephine Orji, Esther Onyema and Latifat Tijani, Yakubu Adesokan, Roland Ezuruike, Abdulazeez Ibrahim, Nnamdi Innocent, Opeyemi Jegede, Paul Kehinde and Tolulope Taiwo. The coaches are Prince Are Feyisetan, Luke Ibeh (both men) and Patience Igbiti (female).

Also, Faith Obiorah, Ahmed Koleosho and Emmanuel Nick will compete in table tennis, with Chinedu Njoku as their coach.

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