One of Nigeria’s great Special athletes, Paul Kehinde is dead.
Findings by Roving Naija indicates that the 33-year old who died after a brief illness on Thursday will be buried in Epe, Lagos state on Friday.
Among many other achievements, the deceased was a gold medalist at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.
Popularly called Olumi Agberin, the deceased is also a world record-holder in the men’s 65kg para-powerlifting category
At the 2016 Summer Olympics, Kehinde took the gold with a lift of 218kg and set a world and Paralympic record of 220kg with a bonus effort.
In the men’s under-72kg category at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games, Kehinde lifted 221kg for gold, narrowly beating compatriot Rolland Ezuruike by less than a kilogram.
Kehinde could not successfully defend his title at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games, losing out to Ezuruike for the gold, but did take silver.
He died barely five weeks after being issued a 30-month ban for committing an anti-doping rule violation by the International Paralympic Committee.
Kehinde was said to have tested positive for prohibited substances following a urine sample provided out-of-competition on 9 March 2020. Making this his second ADRV.
His ineligibility period started on March 9, 2020, and is to expire on September 8, 2022, and all results since his out-of-competition test have been wiped.
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