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Pascoe wins second gold at Rio Paralympics

Pascoe wins second gold at Rio Paralympics

Also, Nwosu claimed the fifth gold medal for Nigeria when she lifted 140kg in the women's -73kg of the Powerlifting event.

With Nwosu's latest feat, Team Nigeria now has five gold medals and is ninth on the overall medals' log.

Nigerian athletes have won six of their seven medals so far in powerlifting, which sees athletes within a certain weight category bench press.

It's Pascoe's third medal of the Rio Paralympics, adding to the gold she won in the 100m backstroke on Sunday and the silver in 50m freestyle on Saturday.

The 37-year-old won hand-cycle time trial gold at Beijing 2008 and has now tasted success in rowing with a winning time of 5min 13.19sec.

Bose Omolayo won the women's -79 kg by heaving 138kg, setting new Paralympics Games and World Records.

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He has previously said that winning a gold medal at Rio "would be really nice to finish off that collection".

China's other table tennis gold medals here were won by Feng Panfeng in the men's singles class 3 and Liu Jing in the women's singles classes 1-2.

Grimaldi, who won gold in the T47 long jump event on Friday, will also compete in the 200 metres later in the week.

For India, given the treatment meted out to Olympic athletes/medal-winners vis-a-vis Paralympics ones, the answer is an unfortunate "yes".

Pascoe finished nearly six seconds ahead of the silver medal victor Aurelie Rivard of Canada.

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