Iranian female sports shooter Sareh Javanmardi has received a second gold medal at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. I can’t believe it. It was really disappointing.
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“We have to generate energy (at the games), so therefore, we wanted to bring the public on board and have them provide energy, because in both games we started kind of with an obligation to sell more tickets”, said Mario Andrada, spokesman for the local organizing committee. “We’ve all had to fight for it, but I’m really pleased”.
Dressage star Sophie Christiansen took her tally of Paralympic gold medals to seven as Great Britain’s equestrians led the medal charge in Rio on Thursday.
The team surpassed the 42 gold medals count won in Beijing and, as a result, the team’s performance in Rio will be the highest gold medal haul since Seoul in 1988, 28 years ago. The 31-year-old who lives in Tsuchiura, Ibaraki Prefecture, crossed the line approximately one minute behind the gold medalist, Eoghan Clifford from Ireland.
According to the official website of Rio 2016, each of the 2,642 medals (877 gold, 876 silver, 889 bronze) has a device inside that uses tiny steel balls to make a sound when they are shaken, allowing visually impaired athletes to identify which color they are. However, entering his T51 100m final Tuesday he had the pressure of making 200 million Mexicans happy – and he didn’t disappoint, recording a season’s best of 21.96s to win bronze, Mexico’s eighth medal of the Paralympics.
“Sometimes I stop in front of my medals and think about what it took to get to that point. But I hope one day the bloodbath will end”, he said.
“It’s not the ideal lane running from lane eight but I just got on with it”.
The time was half a second outside her own S9-class world record, but 0.4s better than silver medallist Nuria Marques Soto, of Spain.
Her team mate Anne added: “We’ve worked for this for eight years me and my family and it’s incredible to be here in Rio”.
Poland’s Lech Stoltman won the bronze with 11.39m.
Japan sits in second in Group B, behind the United States on goal difference, but ahead of day-one losers Sweden and France.
‘These Paralympic winners are listening to their medals.
Paralympics GB’s astounding momentum at the Rio Games shows no sign of slowing down, with the team winning nine gold medals on the seventh day of the competition.
John Walker then won individual compound gold, to ensure Britain had won a gold medal in archery, as well as athletics, boccia, cycling, canoe, equestrian, rowing, swimming, triathlon, table tennis and wheelchair tennis.
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The Paralympics and the individual Paralympians also play an important role in helping to transform attitudes towards people with disabilities and a more inclusive community.
