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National Para Games: Plateau State Finishes As The Best From The North And Bettered Their Last Term Standing And Medals Haul As The Curtain Falls On The 3rd Edition Today
Plateau State contingent to the 3rd National Para Games in Abuja did not only put up an improvement in their medals haul or position on the medals table, but went ahead to emerge as the best State from the Northern part of Nigeria.
Plateau State finished 7th on the medals table against their 11th placement in the last edition after amassing 8 gold, 6 silver and 14 bronze medals as against the 5 gold, 13 silver and 7 bronze medals gotten the last time out.
Plateau State finished 7th on the medals table behind Abia State who finished 6th(9 gold, 16 silver and 18 bronze medals), Rivers State finished 5th(20 gold, 21 silver and 17 bronze medals), Lagos State finished 4th(20 gold, 23 silver and 20 bronze medals), Edo State finished 3rd(25 gold, 14 silver and 12 bronze medals), Bayelsa State finished 2nd(25 gold, 30 silver and 33 bronze medals) while Enugu State finished 1st with 40 gold, 8 silver and 7 bronze medals.
Osun State finished 8th, Adamawa State finished 9th, Kwara State finished 10th, Cross River State finished 11th, Ondo State finished 12th, Katsina State finished 13th, Kano State finished 14th, Niger State finished 15th, Bauchi State finished 16th, Ekiti State finished 17th, Benue State finished 18th, Kaduna State finished 19th, Abuja finished 20th, Jigawa finished 21st, Kogi State finished 22nd, Jigawa State finished 21st, Kogi State finished 22nd, Zamfara State finished 23rd, Kebbi State finished 24th, Taraba State finished 25th; while States like Akwa Ibom, Anambra, Borno, Delta, Ebonyi, Gombe, Imo, Nasarawa, Ogun, Oyo, Sokoto and Yobe, had no single medal attached to them, neither gold, silver or bronze.
Meanwhile, Plateau State on the last day still added some medals ro their medals haul. Mary Nathan picked gold in Para Badminton after beating Leka Bran of Bayelsa 21-9, 21-7 in the finals of the WH1 women singles category.
In Para Athletics, Helen Abari carted home bronze in the F53 female discuss category.
In another development, the duo of Nendirmwa Monday and Jephet Yunana were stripped off their bronze medals won in Para Badminton mixed doubles on Day 5 in what the officials called: regulatory and technical reasons. The same unsavoury situation of decision taken by the officials deprived Nendirmwa Monday of her Silver medal in the SL4 Class and bronze by Anna Nyam in the SL3 Women category.
But notwithstanding, Plateau State still ended up with more medals and better placing than the last edition; and finishing as the best State from the North.
The curtain is expected to be drawn on the 3rd edition of the National Para Games taking place in Abuja today.
