Patience Aghimile Igbiti

Patience Aghimile Igbiti is a Nigerian Paralympian who competed as a powerlifter and later became a Paralympic coach. At the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing she won the bronze medal in the women's 60 kg powerlifting category. After retiring from competition she moved into coaching and was part of the coaching crew of Team Nigeria for the 2016 Summer Paralympics. Paralympic powerlifting is a bench press event for athletes with physical impairments. The published record on Igbiti is brief and gives no birth date, so this entry records her Beijing bronze in the 60 kg class and her move from lifting to coaching.