Britain’s success in the velodrome continued on the road as Storey’s 13th Paralympic title and second of Rio 2016 was followed by gold for Karen Darke in the H1-2-3 event and for Steve Bate and his pilot Adam Duggleby in the men’s tandem event.
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As athletes, including Australia’s Ellie Cole pictured above, have experienced, a simple shake of the medal delivers a subtle difference in sound for gold, silver and bronze medallists.
Pavlos Mamalos from Greece raised 238 kilograms overhead to be awarded the gold medal.
Blake first came to attention in 2011 after winning gold in the 400m and silver in both the 800m and 1500m at the IPC Athletics World Championships. “The rounded cases that hold the medals were made from freijó wood certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)”, it added.
Thankfully for her – and for Paralympics GB’s gold medal tally – the chair was repaired.
The 31-year-old sportswoman of Iran won another gold medal on Wednesday, after garnering 189.5 scores (a new finals Paralympic record) in P4 mixed 50-meter pistol SH1 competitions ranking first ahead of China’s Chao Yang who finished with 186.5 points and Ukrainian Oleksii Denysiuk with 160.8 point who respectively stood on the second and third place.
IT WILL be one of the enduring images of the Paralympic Games in Rio.
Great Britain is now only 11 medals away from their 2012 haul of 120.
Competing in the Paralympics men’s 1,500m T13 final Monday for visually-impaired athletes, the top-four finishers all ran faster than Olympic 1,500m champion Matthew Centrowitz Jr.
The 49-year-old won the 20-km H5 hand-cycling road time trial in Rio de Janeiro to add to the two golds he won on his Paralympics debut in London four years ago.
The silver victor paralympian athletes of Iran have so far been Saman Pakbaz, Alireza Ghalenasseri, Nemati and Ranjbar, Sajjad Mohammadian, Abdollah Heidari, and Sajjad Neikparast.
One caveat in the medal count is that the Russian team is absent, banned by the International Paralympic Committee for state-sponsored doping.
On Friday, Ruzhdi won his first Paralympic medal in the shot put, throwing 12.33m to smash his own world record and clinch the gold by nearly a meter’s margin. “I was feeling calm, not thinking, ‘Oh, I need to get a medal.’ I wasn’t feeling the pressure and that’s why I was very good”.
Like Christiansen and Baker, Cockroft now has three golds from Rio.
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Peyman Nassiri, Ebrahim Ranjbar, Ali Sadeghzadeh, and Asadollah Azimi have bagged the bronze medals of Iran’s delegation so far. Next year’s London Marathon will be the last race of my career.
