Latifat Tijani has won Nigeria’s first gold medal at the ongoing Tokyo Paralympic Games.
Latifat defeated China’s Zhe Cui to lift 107kg in the women’s 45kg powerlifting on Thursday.
The Nigerian powerlifter was a gold medalist at the Brazzaville 2015 Africa Games and a silver medalist at the Rio 2016 Paralympics.
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