Nigeria finishes as Africa's third best team at the just concluded Paralympic games.

As the 2012 Paralympic Games
rounded off in London on
Sunday, no fewer than 10
African countries made the
medals table, winning a total of
112 medals over the 11 days of
the Games, August 29 to
September 9.
African nations’ performance
at the Games represented a
marginal improvement over their
performance at the last
Paralympic Games in Beijing,
China, in 2008, where only eight
nations made the medals table.
The 10 African countries notched
up 112 medals, made up of 38
gold, 36 silver and 38 bronze
medals.
Nigeria, which led Africa’s
medals table from the beginning
of the games, was beaten to the
third place by Tunisia.
Tunisia, now Africa’s number
one at the end of the Paralympic
Games, won 19 medals - nine
gold, five silver and five bronze,
to beat South Africa, which had
25 medals - eight gold, 12 silver
and seven bronze medals - to
the second position.
Nigeria, which placed third with
13 medals over all, had six gold,
five silver and two bronze.
Nigeria, however, ended up the
Games’ overall number one
winners of the Power lifting
event, from where it won 12 of
its 13 medals.
Algeria placed fourth with a total
of 19 medals – (4-6-9), Egypt
had 15 (4-4-7), Morocco (3-0-3),
Kenya (2-2-2),
Others are: Namibia (1-1-0),
Angola (1-0-1) and Ethiopia
(0-1-0).