Storey, who became the most successful British female Paralympian of all time when she won her 12th gold on Thursday, was in third place after clocking a time of 37.068sec. The tally, after just four full days of competition, is already more than half of the West African nation’s haul of 13 medals at the London 2012 Paralympics, and there are still seven days to go in Rio. China’s Li Zhangyu won gold with a world record time of 1min 6.678sec.
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“I was confident of winning before the tournament started, but also nervous”, Cao told the Paralympic News Service.
Four years later in London, Malaysia won a silver through Hasihin Sanawi in the men’s recurve W1/W2 (wheelchair) event, and bronze through Muhammad Ziyad Zolkefli in the shot putt F20 (intellectual disability) event. And she was relaxed on Saturday ahead of her historic ride.
I can’t believe it.
Her first throw of 7.83m bettered the former record of 7.72m.
Nigeria’s Paralympians are doing their best to make up for the poor performance at the Rio 2016 Olympics.
“It’s insane to think that two years ago I was diagnosed (with MS)”.
Cox is scheduled to return to the athletics track in the T36-38 4x100m relay and T38 400m, while she is also entered in cycling’s road race on the penultimate day of the Games. Moments later Toby Gold was unable to live up to his name, finishing with silver in the T33 100m, with Andrew Small taking bronze. “Kare has never come as close to me before in the 100m”, Cockroft said.
Earlier today Emma Foy and Laura Thompson (sighted pilot) showed true guts and determination to win silver on the final day of racing at the Rio Velodrome at the Paralympics.
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“This time two years ago, I was having a relapse, I got rediagnosed and I was going into hospital”.
