Nigeria has lost of ne of its paralympic greats – Kehinde Paul.
The Olympic gold medalist and current world record-holder in the men’s 65kg weightlifting category was said to have passed on on Thursday after a brief illness.
He was 33.
His achievements include winning Silver at the 2011 World Championship, Gold at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, and Gold at 2015 All African Games (setting an African record of 214 kg).
Kehinde also won Gold at the 2016 Rio Paralympic Games (broke the world record twice with lifts of 218kg and 220kg), Gold at the Mexico World Championship with another world record lift of 220kg, and another Gold at the 2018 FAZZA World Para-Powerlifting Championship with a record-breaking lift of 220kg.
