The Nigeria Para-PowerLifting Federation (NPPF) says it is perfecting the training of its athletes to make Nigeria proud at the Rio Paralympics in Brazil.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that power-lifters are presently in camp in Abuja ahead of the quadrennial games, scheduled to hold from Sept. 7 to Sept. 18.
Technical Director of the federation, Samuel Ekeoma, told NAN that the federation had designed a training plan aimed at enhancing the performance of the athletes ahead of the event.
“We are perfecting our training now; hopefully we will make Nigeria proud in Paralympics.
“As a federation, we have tried to map out strategies to ensure that athletes are well train and well focus.
“We have created female department headed by a female coach, so everybody is now concentrating on a particular angle so that the thing will not be so tedious.’’
He added that athletes were responding well in training in a bid to surpass the nation’s previous performance at the games.
NAN further reports that Nigerian para-powerlifters won six gold, five silver and two bronze medals at the London 2012 Olympics.