Nigeria’s Eucharia Iyiazi sets a new Commonwealth Games record in the women’s F55-57 shot put to win Nigeria’s 8th gold at the 2022 event in Birmingham. Iyiazi threw 10.03m to win the gold medal.
Ugochi Alam also did enough to claim a bronze medal.
Iyiazi competed in the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, China where she won a gold medal in both the women’s shot putt F57/F58 event and the women’s discus throw F57/F58 event.
At the Beijing Paralympics, Iyiazi set the world and Paralympic record for the F58 class in the shot put and discus.
The silver medal went to Cameroon’s Arlette Fokoa.
The pair of Esther Isa and Temitope Adeshina competed in the women’s High Jump final, finishing ninth and 10th respectively.
Both athletes jumped an identical height of 1.81m which was not good enough for a podium finish.
Team Nigeria now move up to seventh place in the medal standings with eight gold, three silver, and seven bronze.