Nigeria at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

Nigeria at the Paralympic Games

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Summer Games

Nigeria is scheduled to compete at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 7 September to 18 September 2016.

Funding and support

Sportspeople in Nigeria had difficulties in qualifying for Rio owing to a lack of funds.[1]

Disability classifications

Every participant at the Paralympics has their disability grouped into one of five disability categories; amputation, the condition may be congenital or sustained through injury or illness; cerebral palsy; wheelchair athletes, there is often overlap between this and other categories; visual impairment, including blindness; Les autres, any physical disability that does not fall strictly under one of the other categories, for example dwarfism or multiple sclerosis.[2][3] Each Paralympic sport then has its own classifications, dependent upon the specific physical demands of competition. Events are given a code, made of numbers and letters, describing the type of event and classification of the athletes competing. Some sports, such as athletics, divide athletes by both the category and severity of their disabilities, other sports, for example swimming, group competitors from different categories together, the only separation being based on the severity of the disability.[4]

Table tennis

Nigerian table tennis players had difficulty qualifying for Rio as a result of the lack of funding to enable them to participate in qualifying events. Some table tennis players contacted Director-General of the National Sports Commission Mallam Alhassan Yakmut seeking the release of funds to enable them to attend a qualifying event in Morocco in October 2015. Nasiru Bello, Faith Obiorah and Philomena Konwe all had their qualifying impacted by funding issues related to attending the event.[1]

Nigerian table tennis will still be represented in Rio: Cecilia Arinye was selected as an umpire for the Paralympic Games in table tennis.[5]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Paralympic qualifiers: Nigerian para-table tennis athletes beg NSC for fund". Nigerian Tribune. 22 September 2015. Retrieved 25 December 2015.
  2. ↑ "Paralympics categories explained". ABC. 3 September 2008. Retrieved 25 December 2015.
  3. ↑ "Making sense of the categories". BBC Sport. 6 October 2000. Retrieved 25 December 2015.
  4. ↑ "A-Z of Paralympic classification". BBC Sport. 28 August 2008. Retrieved 25 December 2015.
  5. ↑ "AFRICAN UMPIRES FOR RIO 2016 OLYMPIC, PARALYMPIC GAMES". ITTF Africa. 29 December 2015. Retrieved 1 January 2016.
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