PCN announces exciting financial rewards for medalists at 2024 Paralympic Games

Each Nigerian gold medalist at the upcoming Paralympic Games in France will pocket a financial reward of $15, 000(about N23,600,550.00.)

Silver medalists will get $10,000(about N15,733,700.00) while $5000 (about N7,866,850.00) will go to bronze medal winners.

Making this known yesterday, the Secretary General of the Paralympic Committee of Nigeria (PCN), Suleiman Isah, said that the Minister of Sports, John Enoh, promised monetary rewards to boost the athletes’ morale.

“We are ready, Team Nigeria is ready to make the nation proud in Paris. There is no injury or crisis in camp, so we are good to go. The Minister of Sports has assured monetary rewards to the athletes who excel at the games. He promised every gold medal ($15,000), silver medal ($10,000), and bronze ($5,000). This will serve as motivation for the athletes, so we expect all the athletes to do well at the games,” Isah said.

Team Nigeria athletes are currently on a training tour of Germany preparing for the Games.

Providing insights into the Nigerian team’s preparations in Germany, head coach Nasiru Sule explained that the atmosphere in the camp was calm and conducive, with all the athletes ready to explode and compete at the games.

The Atlanta Paralympics Games bronze medalist in table tennis said, “The athletes have been training well and vigorously, too, to make the country proud at the games.

“We are in high spirits and battle-ready to go. The training has been going well as planned and I want to thank the Paralympic Committee Nigeria (PCN) leadership for their focus and planning towards the camping exercise and I am optimistic that we are coming home with medals. Though I can not say precisely how many or which color but with the determination of the athletes in camp, the future is bright for us,” he concluded.

Nigeria will participate in four sports – athletics, badminton, para-powerlifting, and para-table tennis – at the Games in France from 28 August to 8 Sept 2024.

The country’s para-athletes won ten medals at the last Games held in Tokyo, Japan, in 2020.