Lucy Ejike

Lucy Ogechukwu Ejike, born on 16 October 1977 in Enugu, Nigeria, is a Nigerian Paralympic powerlifter who has represented her country at six consecutive Paralympic Games, from Sydney in 2000 through to Tokyo in 2021, winning medals at each: three gold, two silver and one bronze. She won a further silver medal at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast. She uses a wheelchair because of polio, lives in Enugu State and works as a sports administrator. She began training shortly before the Sydney Games, where she took silver in the 44 kilogram class with a lift of 102.5 kilograms, and in Athens four years later she broke the Paralympic powerlifting world record twice on the way to gold.