All of the medals also have the words Rio 2016 Paralympic Games written on them in Braille.
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Paul is a member of Cushionstown AC and the Meath native is a triple gold medal victor from the 2015 Cerebral Palsy World Games.
According to the committee, the medals have been produced using strict sustainability criteria – from the initial mining to the design of the end product.
The first athlete of Iran’s delegation to Rio winning a medal was Saman Pakbaz who bagged the silver medal of the men’s shot put F12 category competitions on Thursday (September 08). Half of the plastic in the ribbons which will be used to hang the medals around athletes’ necks comes from recycled plastic bottles.
Thankfully for her – and for Paralympics GB’s gold medal tally – the chair was repaired.
The four-time Paralympian’s success in the individual dressage lA, defending the title she won four years earlier in London, also secured ParalympicsGB overall team gold. This is the man from Skyrne’s first Paralympics however, but he has been performing well so far this year and will be hoping to reach the final at least.
Ukraine, winners of consecutive Paralympic titles at Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008, continued to create chances but they were not able to convert and the Iranians took full advantage on the 50 minute mark.
Britain’s quartet finished second in their heat after appearing to be unaware that the criteria for qualification was time not placing. “My goal is a gold medal, so I haven’t achieved it yet”, said the two-time singles Grand Slam champion. Dan Greaves took a bronze in the F44 discus.
In the first day of wheelchair rugby, one of the most spectacular and high-profile sports at the Paralympics, Japan got a win, beating Sweden 50-46. Remarkably Abdellatif’s brother Fouad, who just missed out on the podium in fourth place, finished in a time of 3:49.84, which would still have been fast enough to get Olympic gold. She admitted to race-day nerves, but declared: “I will focus on the moment and the process and only worry about my own performance”.
“We have the best team in the world around us and there’s a great spirit in the camp”.
“We remain focussed on the target of 121 set by UK Sport and we know we still have work to do on the field of play in the next couple of days”.
The former Victorian, who now trains at Castle Hill in NSW, said the past four years had been challenging after surgery on both her shoulders in 2013 and a change of coach.
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Racing was held from September 9-11 with the rowers from 12 countries divided into two heats on the first day, the victor of each heat getting an automatic place in the finals and the remainder having to race again on September 10 in the repecharges to achieve a place in the A Final on the Sunday.
