Tajudeen Agunbiade is a Nigerian para table tennis player of class 9 and

Paralympian The Paralympic Games or Paralympics, also known as the ''Games of the Paralympiad'', is a periodic series of international multisport events involving athletes with a range of physical disabilities, including impaired muscle power and impaire ...

Career

He represented Nigeria at the

2000 Summer Paralympics The 2000 Summer Paralympic Games or the XI Summer Paralympics were held in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, between 18 and 29 October. The Sydney Paralympics was last time that the Summer Paralympics which were organized by two different ...

held in Sydney, Australia and he competed in

table tennis Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as the ping-pong ball, back and forth across a table using small solid rackets. It takes place on a hard table div ...

. He won the gold medal at the Men's singles 9 event. He also won the gold medal at the team event together with

Tunde Adisa Tunde Adisa is a Nigerian para table tennis player of class 9 and Paralympian. He represented Nigeria at the 2000 Summer Paralympics held in Sydney, Australia and also at the 2012 Summer Paralympics held in London, United Kingdom. In 2000, h ...

and Femi Alabi. He also competed at the Men's individual – Class 9–10 and the Men's team – Class 9–10 events at the

2008 Summer Paralympics The 2008 Summer Paralympic Games (), the 13th Summer Paralympic Games, took place in Beijing, China from September 6 to 17, 2008. As with the 2008 Summer Olympics, equestrian events were held in Hong Kong and sailing events in Qingdao. It was ...

but did not win a medal. In July 2019, he won gold at the 2019 ITTF African Para Table Tennis Championships which meant that he qualified to represent Nigeria at the

2020 Summer Paralympics The , branded as the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, was an international multi-sport parasports event held from 24 August to 5 September 2021 in Tokyo, Japan. They were the 16th Summer Paralympic Games as organized by the International Paralym ...

in Tokyo, Japan. He won one of the bronze medals in the men's team C9-10 event.

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Tajudeen Agunbiade
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