Rio de Janeiro, Sept. 12 (CNA) Taiwanese powerlifter Lin Tzu-hui (林資惠) won the country’s first medal at the Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro Monday, a bronze in the women’s under-79 kilogram group.
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China’s Yan Yang won the Bronze medal with a distant 128kg.
Adenegan set a personal best of 18.29 seconds, and is one of a number of athletes inspired to take up sport after London 2012. Rachel Morris, who had both legs amputated due to complex regional pain syndrome, started the procession with gold in the arms-shoulders single sculls.
On August 7, the International Paralympic Committee made a decision to bar the whole Russian Paralympic team from taking part in the 2016 Summer Paralympics following a World Anti-Doping Agency report accusing the Russian state of manipulating a doping control process.
There was a significant gold for Jon-Allan Butterworth as he became the first Briton injured in the Iraq or Afghanistan conflicts to claim a Paralympic title.
“The event has moved on hugely since Beijing and it’s an fantastic feeling”.
“That was actually a really bad swim for me”, said Elliot.
Lauren Rowles and Laurence Whiteley won the trunk-and-arms mixed double sculls and the mixed coxed four added a third gold. Held in Olympic Stadium of Rio, Mohammad Khalvandi threw the javelin for six times meanwhile breaking the world record for three times.
“The IPC will continue to investigate why more than 4,300 other athletes managed to arrive on time for these Games, yet the five players and two coaches that make up the Algerian women’s goalball team have suffered such trouble”, the governing body said in a statement.
“Two and a half years of thinking every day that it would be alright in the end. You never know”, he said.
Britain’s gold medalist team members Grace Clough, Daniel Brown, Pamela Relph, James Fox and Oliver James with their family members and supporters celebrate victory. At the Paralympics we have a 5,000 crowd, the sound is incredible.
“We are pretty confident going into the quarter-finals”.
Fox added: “It’s been a long time coming, it just feels awesome”.
“Now we see people looking for specific athletes and scheduled duels”.
The Paralympic games are a direct result of those incurring spinal injuries during the second world war and the improved medical efforts that resulted in much higher survival rates and longer life expectancy. “The ideal execution of a race”.
“It is more than a dream come through”. Nigeria’s Paralympians have already outshone their Olympic counterparts.
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