Nigeria’s athletes at the just-concluded 2019 Special Olympics World Games in Abu Dhabi won sixty-three medals to continue their heroics from the last edition in Los Angeles.
Unlike the Olympic Games when the country’s athletes are celebrated before embarking on the trip for the global competition and often return empty-handed, these set of athletes, the Special Olympians, made the trip to the United Arab Emirates unheralded, devoid of any fanfare.
It takes place every two years and alternates between summer and winter, with Nigeria competing in the last Summer Games in Los Angeles and the Winter Games in Austria.
Team Nigeria won seventy-one medals at the last event in Los Angeles.
This time, competing in eight events out of twenty-four in Abu Dhabi, Team Nigeria claimed a total of sixty-three individual medals.
They won four gold and two bronze medals in athletics, two gold, seven silver and two bronze in badminton, ten silver medals in Unified Basketball, one gold in cycling, twelve gold in Unified Football, three silver and one bronze in table tennis, one gold, one silver and five bronze in swimming, and twelve gold in Unified Volleyball, totaling sixty-three individual medals in eight sporting activities.
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