![]() Olukoju threw 62.62m to win in Auckland in 1990.Īll focus will now shift to the men and women’s 100m semifinal on Wednesday, the men’s high jump, and the women’s shot put final. ![]() Onyekwere has now become the second Nigerian after Adewale Olukoju to win the Discus Throw title for Nigeria in the history of the championships. track and field team at Olympic Stadium started with, of all things, a plate of spaghetti. Team Nigeria made further history by producing two medallists in the Discus Throw event for the first time with reigning Nigerian champion, Obiageri Amaechi, winning the bronze medal with her 56.99m fifth round effort. TOKYO The path to Valarie Allman’s gold medal the first for the U.S. Karl Gustaf Staaf, a gold medalist in the tug of war, was third with 38.80 m (8 m handicap) 11 12 The handicap event returned at the 1904 Summer Olympics. TOKYO Team USA Para Track and Field athletes persevered to podium. Gyula Strausz, 13th in the main discus, was runner-up with 39.49 m off a 6.3 m handicap. READ ALSO: IRT Commander Tunji Disu Wins Silver Medal Chioma Onyekwere and Obiageri Amaechi. Jeremy Campbell competes in the men's discus throw F46 final at the Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020 on Sept. She responded without success in the second round with a 56.42m effort, fouled the third attempt before swinging the discus to a personal season’s best mark of 61.70m, her second best career mark after the 63.30m personal best she threw last year at the CVEATC, Chula Vista in California, USA. The 28-year-old American-born Nigerian took the lead in a competitive women’s Discus competition in the fourth round, heaving a distance of 61.70m to overtake home favourite Jade Lally of England, who led from the first round with her opening throw of 57.33m. The Nigerian, who opened with 55.82m, knew she needed more than the 58.19m she threw to win the African Championships gold last June in Mauritius. Valarie Carolyn Allman (born February 23, 1995) is an American track and field athlete specializing in the discus throw. Onyekewere, 28, threw 61.70m in her fourth attempt to take the lead from home girl, Jade Lally, who led from the start of the competition with her opening throw of 57.33m. (ET) TOKYO, Japan Jeremy Campbell (Perryton, Texas) took his first throw of the men’s discus F64 competition out to 60. Reigning African Games and African Championships champion, Chioma Onyekwere, saved her best for the last major competition of the year to make history as the first Nigerian woman to win the Commonwealth Games gold in the Discus Throw event.
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